OT Newsreader?

What do you people use to read these newsgroups, i am using google groups, but it isnt very good.
obviously.

Sow hat do you guys use?

If you have Outlook Express, like I do, you can use it.

Setting it up for newsgroups is quite easy.

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......................... "TJ Poseno" <summitlt@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:aac782c8.0310080918.41575e27@posting.google.com...
> What do you people use to read these newsgroups, i am using google groups, but it isnt very good.
> obviously.
>
> Sow hat do you guys use?

summitlt@yahoo.com (TJ Poseno) writes:

> What do you people use to read these newsgroups, i am using google groups, but it isnt very good.
> obviously.
>
> Sow hat do you guys use?

Analysis of posting to rec.bicycles.tech

Holding 8606 messages received between 2003-08-30 05:06 at 2 and 2003-10-08 19:05

Top 20 newsreaders: 000001 1586 Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 000002 607 Forte Agent
1.93/32.576 English (American) 000003 466 usenet-forum@cyclingforums.com 000004 274 Microsoft
Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 000005 256 Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 000006 247
MT-NewsWatcher/3.3b1 (PPC Mac OS X) 000007 209 tin/1.4.2-20000205 ("Possession") (UNIX)
(Linux/2.4.21 (i686)) 000008 173 Opera7.02/Win32 M2 build 2668 000009 132 Pan/0.13.0 (The whole
remains beautiful (Debian GNU/Linux)) 000010 104 Forte Free Agent 1.92/32.572 000011 89
MT-NewsWatcher/3.1 (PPC) 000012 86 KNode/0.7.2 000013 83 Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X
Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 000014 79 Xnews/5.04.25 000015 75 Mozilla/5.0
(Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) 000016 73 Microsoft
Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 000017 70 Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4)
Gecko/20030624 000018 66 Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2720.3000 000019 63 Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus
v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.4 (Common Lisp) 000020 56 MicroPlanet Gravity v2.60

Hmmmm... Pan... that's one i've not tried...

-[root]-# apt-get install pan

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;; in faecibus sapiens rheum propagabit

In article <aac782c8.0310080918.41575e27@posting.google.com>, summitlt@yahoo.com says...
>
>
>What do you people use to read these newsgroups, i am using google groups, but it isnt very good.
>obviously.
>
>Sow hat do you guys use?

I use WinVn.
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Alex

On Wed, 08 Oct 2003 18:35:03 GMT, Simon Brooke <simon@jasmine.org.uk> wrote:
>000002 607 Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English (American)

Doh! Gotta get off this bandwagon. If the weather would stop being so nice, and I'd stop getting so
much work, maybe I could spend some time repairing my linux boxen.

>000008 173 Opera7.02/Win32 M2 build 2668

Sorry, that one's my fault. I switched to Agent, but really, I promise I'll do better!

>Hmmmm... Pan... that's one i've not tried... -[root]-# apt-get install pan

Silly. That's not how it's done! [user]-$ wget
http://pan.rebelbase.com/download/re...-0.14.2.tar.gz

[user]-$ tar xvzf pan-0.14.2.tar.gz [user]-$ cd pan-0.14.2.tar.gz [user]-$ ./configure && make
[user]-$ sudo make install

I even fooled myself for a moment; as I was typing that, I hit the enter key and wondered why I
wasn't getting a prompt...
--
Rick "Oh, it's for gnome; nevermind..." Onanian

summitlt@yahoo.com (TJ Poseno) wrote in news:aac782c8.0310080918.41575e27 @posting.google.com:

> What do you people use to read these newsgroups, i am using google groups, but it isnt very good.
> obviously.
>
> Sow hat do you guys use?

I'm addicted to xnews. (http://xnews.newsguy.com)

Outlook Express works fine for me... really have no need for anything else

unless you're a binary kind of guy "TJ Poseno" <summitlt@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:aac782c8.0310080918.41575e27@posting.google.com...
> What do you people use to read these newsgroups, i am using google groups, but it isnt very good.
> obviously.
>
> Sow hat do you guys use?

On Wed, 08 Oct 2003 18:35:03 +0000, Simon Brooke wrote:

> Hmmmm... Pan... that's one i've not tried...
>
> -[root]-# apt-get install pan

Pan is not bad at all. It has better bozo filtering than most, and seems to work without trouble.

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knowledge; and though I have all faith, so (_)/ (_) | that I could remove mountains, and have not
charity, I am nothing. [1 Corinth. 13:2]

On Wed, 08 Oct 2003 22:30:25 +0100, arlo wrote:

> I'm addicted to xnews. (http://xnews.newsguy.com)

Bizarre. "xnews" is a Windows newsreader.

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David L. Johnson

__o | If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a _`\(,_ | conclusion. --
George Bernard Shaw (_)/ (_) |

In article <87vfqz383n.fsf@gododdin.internal.jasmine.org.uk>, Simon Brooke
<simon@jasmine.org.uk> wrote:

> summitlt@yahoo.com (TJ Poseno) writes:
>
> > What do you people use to read these newsgroups, i am using google groups, but it isnt very
> > good. obviously.
> >
> > Sow hat do you guys use?

Well, that of course depends on the platform in question. You can see an excellent selection of
available newsreaders for most major platforms at www.newsreaders.com

> Analysis of posting to rec.bicycles.tech
>
> Holding 8606 messages received between 2003-08-30 05:06 at 2 and 2003-10-08 19:05
>
> Top 20 newsreaders: 000001 1586 Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 000002 607 Forte Agent
> 1.93/32.576 English (American) 000003 466 usenet-forum@cyclingforums.com 000004 274 Microsoft
> Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 000005 256 Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 000006 247
> MT-NewsWatcher/3.3b1 (PPC Mac OS X) 000007 209 tin/1.4.2-20000205 ("Possession") (UNIX)

<snip> Is this by posts or posters?

> Hmmmm... Pan... that's one i've not tried...
>
> -[root]-# apt-get install pan

ISTR that you need to use gnome in order to use pan.

Rick Onanian <spamsink@cox.net> writes:

> [user]-$ tar xvzf pan-0.14.2.tar.gz [user]-$ cd pan-0.14.2.tar.gz [user]-$ ./configure && make
> [user]-$ sudo make install
>
> I even fooled myself for a moment; as I was typing that, I hit the enter key and wondered why I
> wasn't getting a prompt...

H'mmmm... I hope you did a

[user]-$ make -n install

before you did

[user]-$ sudo make install

Peronally I think sudo is the work of satan, and always have it disabled. If you're going to do
something as root, you ought to have to type the root password just to remind yourself it's
dangerous.

--
simon@jasmine.org.uk (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/

;; in faecibus sapiens rheum propagabit

summitlt@yahoo.com (TJ Poseno) wrote:
>What do you people use to read these newsgroups, i am using google groups, but it isnt very good.
>obviously.
>
>Sow hat do you guys use?

Planting sombreros is not my thing, but I use Forte Agent - a GREAT newsreader program! Free
yourself from that hacker's delight "Outlook Express" and go to www.forteinc.com!

"David L. Johnson" <david.johnson@lehigh.edu> wrote in news:zaWdnX-y7- 9AMhmiU-KYgw@comcast.com:

> On Wed, 08 Oct 2003 22:30:25 +0100, arlo wrote:
>
>> I'm addicted to xnews. (http://xnews.newsguy.com)
>
> Bizarre. "xnews" is a Windows newsreader.
>

Yup, sure is. I use it and love it.

On Wed, 08 Oct 2003 22:05:20 +0000, Tim McNamara wrote:

> ISTR that you need to use gnome in order to use pan.

No, you just need to have the gnome libraries on the system.

--

David L. Johnson

__o | Accept risk. Accept responsibility. Put a lawyer out of _`\(,_ | business. (_)/ (_) |

Lewis Campbell <limeylew@yahoo.com> scribed in <EaidnW-hh8Sk1xmiU -KYuA@gbronline.com>:

>If you have Outlook Express, like I do, you can use it.
>
>Setting it up for newsgroups is quite easy.

and getting nailed by every OE virus/worm in creation is also then easy. (-:

I recommend Agent, or Free Agent if you want a free one. agent will do email too,and is not open
to viruses.

apart from the vuris vulnerabilities of OE, my biggest complaint against it is that it autoharvest
email addresses. as soon as you reply to a message, it puts the address in the address book. THis
addressbook is then used by the viruses. If not so many addresses were in the addressbook, the
viruses would have fewer places to go.

swarf, steam and wind

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