OT: News Reader
john
and NOT Google Groups (I use this at work, and its better than
nothing, but then most things are!)
A long way off topic I know, but having read the thread about the
Cotswold website, there seems to be a reasonable amount expertise on
here...
BTW I liked the implication Jhimmy's in last post in the Costwold
thread that he needs to use Ubuntu to buy his socks, me, I need secure
ways of disposing of them so as to minimise the environmental hazard!
Broadback
previous one and have found it fine.
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Geoff Berrow
<john.so...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>What news reader would people recommend? Needs to be ISP independent,
>and NOT Google Groups (I use this at work, and its better than
>nothing, but then most things are!)
Agent. A bit geeky, but does everything well.
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Peter Clinch
> What news reader would people recommend? Needs to be ISP independent,
> and NOT Google Groups (I use this at work, and its better than
> nothing, but then most things are!)
For a reader I find Thunderbird okay and trivial to set up and use. I
use it on Linux and Windows and it seems to do the necessary.
For an actual news feed I use news.individual.net
Costs 10 Euros a year but it works and they shut out spam remarkably well.
Pete.
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Dominic Sexton
<p.j.c...@dundee.ac.uk> writes
>john wrote:
>> What news reader would people recommend? Needs to be ISP independent,
>> and NOT Google Groups (I use this at work, and its better than
>> nothing, but then most things are!)
>
>For a reader I find Thunderbird okay and trivial to set up and use. I
>use it on Linux and Windows and it seems to do the necessary.
>
>For an actual news feed I use news.individual.net
>Costs 10 Euros a year but it works and they shut out spam remarkably well.
+1 for Thunderbird. If you want to carry it with you and use it on a
number of computers you can use the Portable version on a USB memory
drive (and use it for email too :-)
I have used news.individual.net too and would also recommend it if you
don't mind paying a small fee.
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Phil Cook
>In article <7n248nF...@mid.individual.net>, Peter Clinch
><p.j.c...@dundee.ac.uk> writes
>>john wrote:
>>> What news reader would people recommend? Needs to be ISP independent,
>>> and NOT Google Groups (I use this at work, and its better than
>>> nothing, but then most things are!)
>>
>>For a reader I find Thunderbird okay and trivial to set up and use. I
>>use it on Linux and Windows and it seems to do the necessary.
>>
>>For an actual news feed I use news.individual.net
>>Costs 10 Euros a year but it works and they shut out spam remarkably well.
>
>+1 for Thunderbird. If you want to carry it with you and use it on a
>number of computers you can use the Portable version on a USB memory
>drive (and use it for email too :-)
Agent is portable and I think 40tude Dialog which is a free Agent
clone is too.
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Jhimmy
> +1 for Thunderbird. If you want to carry it with you and use it on a
> number of computers you can use the Portable version on a USB memory drive
> (and use it for email too :-)
>
> I have used news.individual.net too and would also recommend it if you
> don't mind paying a small fee.
>
> --
>
> Dominic Sexton
I never knew about the portable version, cheers. I left Thunderbird off when
I upgraded my computer late last year. I seem to keep coming back to
Outlook.....er, no Windows Mail as it's now called -> gulp!
Jhimmy
PeterC
Tried about a dozen or so! I use Thunderbird for e-mail but find it clunky
for Usenet, so settled on 40tude Dialog. It's very configurable (but I
don't use much of that), has singl-key shortcuts and does everything that I
want (also as back-up e-mil client, but doesn't show HTML, so no good for
Lidl etc.).
http://www.40tude.com/dialog/features.htm
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Allan
> john wrote:
>> What news reader would people recommend? Needs to be ISP independent,
>> and NOT Google Groups (I use this at work, and its better than
>> nothing, but then most things are!)
>
> For a reader I find Thunderbird okay and trivial to set up and use. I
> use it on Linux and Windows and it seems to do the necessary.
>
> For an actual news feed I use news.individual.net
> Costs 10 Euros a year but it works and they shut out spam remarkably well.
I would also vote for Thunderbird + NIN.
I use both. No connection with either other than as user/subscriber.
Allan