OT: what do ya use to read newsgroup

Apr 07, 2004 9 Replies

hi, I was wondering what some people in here use to read newsgroups. I have OAL right now which reads newsgroups ok at best, but I'm dumping AOL this month. so I'm wondering what programs or "newsgroup browsers" are out there on the net for download and which ones are good and easy to use. thanks



-Slick Nick


I've just been using Outlook Express. I set it to read as text only and I have no problems. It's simple and clean interface.

When I frequently read binary newsgroups I also used Forte Agent - an excellent program, but hard to learn. Lots of options that nobody uses, but many swear by it.

Dave

For this kind of newsgroup (discussion) I use Outlook Express. For binary newsgroups, I use Newsbin.

-Trevor

-Trevor

newsgroups. I have OAL

dumping AOL this month. so

out there on the net

thanks

Yes, Forte Agent here too. I also post often directly from my Cotse web interface.

I had tried X-news but found it slow.

OE is fastest, but seems to be a memory hog and doesn't have blacklist/whitelist capiblities.

K

Same here...i prefer Forte Agent. I bought a license many years ago and still use it today. Great program.

I like Mozilla, does it all (mail/browse/news) and it's FREE @

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I use knode which is a linux based newsreader. When I ran windows years ago I used free agent or netscape/mozilla. IMHO OE is a virus magnet and I uninstall it on every windows machine I service for friends or family!

Mozilla is good. I use Mozilla Thunderbird (email/news) and Mozilla Firefox (www browser). I havent had any problems yet, although both are still in beta testing.

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family!

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