Newsreader Needed

[Leon]

OLE is no longer available on Win 7 and 8. Those are the changes.

[Bill Leonhardt]

I know a little about woodworking but I'm not too educated when it comes to news readers. I will ask this question sort of expecting flames:

Why would you not use Google Groups other than the inability to get binaries?

[Michael]

Maybe some functions like saving posts or blocking certain posters, a better text editor too. Other things like highlighting responses to your posts and showing the thread hierarchies.

I used to use a dedicated client and service, but now I use google groups because it's free, easy, and readily available on my computer, phone, &c.

[Larry Blanchard]

I don't use Thunderbird for news, just for email. But it has developed a nasty habit of changing the font size in the middle of composing an email. Could be peculiar to the Linux version (17.0.2) but it is an irritant.

[Bill]

Since we are talking about Thunderbird, etc. You may have noticed that sometimes the words of my text run together. That's because (in my preferences) I "edit in HTML" (which permits me to make the text large enough to see it well).

To avoid the problem of the words running together, I usually cut all of my text, copy to WordPad, and Paste back into the editor in Thunderbird--and that works. Except, when I forget to do that, some of the words run together when they are uploaded to the newsgroup server as text. Anyone else doing this in Thunderbird/Seamonkey (have a better solution?)

[dadiOH]

Can IE 6 be installed in Win 7 or 8? I'm thinking MS would have conniptions if one tried to do so.

Having it installed doesn't mean you have to use it :)

[Bill]

Sounds like "just asking" for a virus!

[Swingman]

This latest version (24.1.1) of TB is pissing me off. Unstable, not responding from the simple saving of an email to a storage folder, etc. Most problematic version I've had on this Win7 box in a good while.

Feels like it may be an add-on/Filter issues, but they all show as compatible, and the few add-ons/Filters I need is what makes TB usable for me.

[Pat Barber]

Thunderbird will work fine...

[Markem]

If it suits your purpose good for you, but the main reason for me is threading, GG's horrific interface and the poor retention of GG.

[krw]

Because Google screws up the Usenet for the rest of us. Read your own posts for just one example. There are many.

[Unquestionably Confused]

Aw, you musta blinked. TB is now at 24.2.0 as of this moment. Just launched TB and it upgraded it a minute ago.

Hopefully the "undocumented feature" you mentioned has been scrubbed out.

[Larry]

Markem wrote in news: [e-mail]:

GG is the source of much spam and is contributing the the demise of Usenet. Many people that have been around Usenet for years block anything posted from a GMail address. I wouldn't have seen this had someone not responded. Nothing personal, but I have found the content of users that post using a NNTP client is more likely on topic.

Larry

[Swingman]

LOL ... damn, you're right. Hit Help while typing this and it started downloading immediately.

I'll be back shortly, I hope. ;)

[Ed Pawlowski]

It evolved into Live Mail. It will not put markers (such as > or :) in front of quoted text. It is OK for most email needs though.

[dadiOH]

"Mike Marlow" wrote in message news:l87pj6$eef$ [e-mail]

Hmm...maybe Microsoft surreptiously bought them out and is now doing the coding :)

[Just Wondering]

I'm using Firefox and Thunderbird as my default internet apps. I've used them for years, and have never (well, almost never, and not for a long time) experienced crashes and hangups.

[Keith Nuttle]

I am another of the "one hundred thousabndth".

My experience with Firefox and Thunderbird is the same. I started using Firefox and Thunderbird as a replacement for Netscape over 10 years ago. I have never had a serious problem with updating, or using either of the programs. I am not an occasional user but use them several hours per day.

The people who appear on the newsgroups and forums are a small minority of the Mozilla users. Many are like the person in a recent Mozilla newsgroup that was complaining about problems with FF & TB where he had between 77 and 100 addons installed. I did not know there were that many that were truly different addons available. I have less that a half dozen in each Firefox and Thunderbird.

In some of the post with problems, FF & TB get blamed when the root cause of the problem is somewhere else and probably with non standard code of a URL.

Unless you have gigabits of messages, several dozen different accounts,

77 or more addons installed in FF & TB, and never compact TB's databases, I doubt if you will ever have serious problems with Firefox or Thunderbird.

[Jeff Mazur]

+1 for Agent, or Free Agent, very good programs in their day.

[Doug Winterburn]

Agree - been using TB and FF for years with no major issues. No more than half dozen add-ons on each.