Newsreader for iPad

Tricky Dicky

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Aug 6, 2022, 11:28:49 AM8/6/22

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I tend to use my iPad to access uk.d-i-y using Google Groups but the recent infestation has highlighted the shortcomings of using Google Groups.

I have signed up to Eternal September but find I have little choice for the iPad when it comes to newsreaders. Has anyone got any recommendations especially when it comes to filtering out the dross?

Richard

Tim Lamb

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Aug 6, 2022, 12:12:43 PM8/6/22

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In message <1b2d82e3-e8ac-4a29...@googlegroups.com>,
Tricky Dicky <tricky...@sky.com> writes

I've been using Turnpike since about 1997! Now on W7 so 32 bit.

I'm no geek but there is an active newsgroup at
*demon.ip.support.turnpike*

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Richard

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Aug 6, 2022, 12:17:11 PM8/6/22

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Quick search shows this:

https://mobile.clauss-net.de/NewsTap/
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/newstap-usenet-newsreader/id292410356

I don't know if it is any good as I don't use ios.

Tim+

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Aug 6, 2022, 12:21:08 PM8/6/22

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Um, but that doesn’t run on an iPad. I use NewsTap. Sadly its filtering
capabilities are pretty basic but as long as I keep updating it with the
trolls’ latest keywords, it does a fair job of controlling the tide of
crap.

Tim

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Jamesy

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Aug 6, 2022, 2:28:04 PM8/6/22

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On Sun, 07 Aug 2022 01:28:47 +1000, Tricky Dicky <tricky...@sky.com>
wrote:

NewsTap is really the only viable news reader for ithings.

Works well enough but is irritatingly slow downloading new posts.

John Rumm

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Aug 6, 2022, 3:45:37 PM8/6/22

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On 06/08/2022 16:28, Tricky Dicky wrote:

Not really that well up on iDevice apps, but the situation on Android
also seemed fairly poor last time I looked.

Slightly facetious answer:

Run Thunderbird on a PC, and then use RDP (or other remote control
protocol of choice) to let the iPad remotely access the PC :-)

Better but more "difficult" answer:

(or run a news proxy on your network, set that to do filtering, and
point the iPad at the local proxy news server).

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Peeler

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Aug 6, 2022, 3:47:49 PM8/6/22

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On Sun, 07 Aug 2022 04:27:56 +1000, Jamesy, better known as cantankerous
trolling senile geezer Rodent Speed, wrote:

<FLUSH the abnormal trolling senile cretin's latest trollshit unread>

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Tim Lamb

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Aug 6, 2022, 3:57:04 PM8/6/22

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In message <4NPlTkZT...@marfordfarm.demon.co.uk>, Tim Lamb
<t...@marfordfarm.demon.co.uk> writes

Oops! I blanked the i-pad bit!
Google throws up several but I'm not sure they are talking about the
same newsfeed:-(
>

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Brian Gaff

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Aug 7, 2022, 3:38:59 AM8/7/22

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I doubt its going to run on an I-Pad!

Brian

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Tim Lamb

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Aug 7, 2022, 4:08:33 AM8/7/22

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In message <tcnq6g$f2pj$1...@dont-email.me>, Brian Gaff
<brian...@gmail.com> writes

>I doubt its going to run on an I-Pad!

Yes. Momentary brain failure.

Sadly one of an increasing number.

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