Best Newsgroup reader?

May 30, 2003, 12:11 AM ET9 posts by 8 posters
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Thread discusses alternatives to Outlook Express for reading newsgroups, with users recommending Free Agent and Microplanet Gravity.

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Rolando

I am looking to dump Outlook Express as my newsgroup reader. What good ones are out there?

Tremblay KenRolando

I use outlook express, can't help ya, why do you dump it?

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walter sobchakTremblay Ken

try Forte Agent.

walter sobchak

"you're killing your father larry!"

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kcwalter sobchak

walter sobchak

"you're killing your father larry!"

"see what happens Larry ? SEE what happens Larry ??" ad infinitum

LOL

kc

walter sobchakkc

that rug really tied the room together, did it not?

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MikeRolando

any good newsreader for the mac(osX)?

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Mark MellinMike

In article "Mike" writes:

You might try MT-NewsWatcher.

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NooneRolando

In article , [email] says...

Free Agent or Microplanet Gravity are few good ones.

John TwernboldRolando

I like Xnews:

http://xnews.newsguy.com/

It's completely free, and it's more powerful & flexible than OE.

It has a number of nifty features, like the ability to set display colors for different levels of quoting (that is, when you're reading a message, all lines preceeded by >>> are green, >> are red, > are blue, the signature is grey, etc.). It can also automagically "clean up" bad line-wrapping which has broken up a section of quoted text. And when you write a reply, it has a "rewrap and join" feature which cleans up the text you're quoting. Even trimming quotes is easier since you can simply select the text you want to quote in the displayed message, and it will trim the rest when you reply. The appearance is completely customizable (layout, font, color, etc.), and you can specify different keyboard shortcuts for just about everything. It also has extensive filtering functionality, and can easily work with binary files (combining, decoding, yENC support, etc.).

The only downside: no built-in spellchecker. Some people use an external spellchecker (Xnews supports both external spellcheckers and text editors) but I just "wing it" and hope I don't skrew up teh spillling tue baddly. ;-)

John Twernbold jtwernbold (at) yahoo.com