Best usenet client?

[Nar]

Hi lads,

What usenet client do you use, and what do you reckon the best usenet client
for a newbie is nowadays?

I just use Windows Live Mail 2012 simply because it still works XD (other
than the occasional glitch here and there on Win10). Anyone else on WLM?

Electronically yours,
Nar,
a_...@riseup.net

[Sn!pe]

For Windows: Microplanet Gravity as maintained by Steve Gibson at GRC.

<https://www.grc.com/discussions.htm> (page down)
<https://www.grc.com/files/GravitySetup.zip> (download link)

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On Tue, 13 Feb 2024 00:42:15 +0000, snip...@gmail.com (Sn!pe) wrote:

>Nar <a_...@riseup.net> wrote:
>
>> Hi lads,
>>
>> What usenet client do you use, and what do you reckon the best usenet client
>> for a newbie is nowadays?
>>
>> I just use Windows Live Mail 2012 simply because it still works XD (other
>> than the occasional glitch here and there on Win10). Anyone else on WLM?
>>
>> Electronically yours,
>> Nar,
>> a_...@riseup.net
>>
>
>For Windows: Microplanet Gravity as maintained by Steve Gibson at GRC.
>
><https://www.grc.com/discussions.htm> (page down)
><https://www.grc.com/files/GravitySetup.zip> (download link)
>

They even have some instructions for configuring your
NetScape Communicator ... :-)

https://www.grc.com/configNC.htm

John T.

[Jim the Geordie]

In article <1qoucfe.5u4y6pw45hqiN%snip...@gmail.com>, snipeco.2
@gmail.com says...

>
> Nar <a_...@riseup.net> wrote:
>
> > Hi lads,
> >
> > What usenet client do you use, and what do you reckon the best usenet client
> > for a newbie is nowadays?
> >
> > I just use Windows Live Mail 2012 simply because it still works XD (other
> > than the occasional glitch here and there on Win10). Anyone else on WLM?
> >
> > Electronically yours,
> > Nar,
> > a_...@riseup.net
> >
>
> For Windows: Microplanet Gravity as maintained by Steve Gibson at GRC.
>
> <https://www.grc.com/discussions.htm> (page down)
> <https://www.grc.com/files/GravitySetup.zip> (download link)

Me too.

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Tone

[Jeff Gaines]

On 13/02/2024 in message <uqed4i$1p0k5$1...@dont-email.me> Nar wrote:

>Hi lads,
>
>What usenet client do you use, and what do you reckon the best usenet
>client for a newbie is nowadays?
>
>I just use Windows Live Mail 2012 simply because it still works XD (other
>than the occasional glitch here and there on Win10). Anyone else on WLM?

I have used XanaNews for years, never found anything as good:

https://github.com/graemeg/xananews

NOT to be confused with Xnews


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Tomorrow, isn't looking good either.

[Tease'n'Seize]

Nar wrote:

> What usenet client do you use, and what do you reckon the best usenet
> client for a newbie is nowada

thunderbird here.

[Abandoned Trolley]

On 13/02/2024 00:29, Nar wrote:

"still works XD" ??

[Tease'n'Seize]

Abandoned Trolley wrote:
>
>  "still works XD" ??

'tis a form of LOL emoji

[maus]

On 2024-02-13, Abandoned Trolley <fr...@fred-smith.co.uk> wrote:

slrn


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[John Williamson]

On 13/02/2024 00:29, Nar wrote:

> Hi lads,
>
> What usenet client do you use, and what do you reckon the best usenet
> client for a newbie is nowadays?
>
> I just use Windows Live Mail 2012 simply because it still works XD
> (other than the occasional glitch here and there on Win10). Anyone else
> on WLM?
>

I have been using Thunderbird for 20 years or more for both usenet and
POP3 mail,since I gave up on Outlook Express.

Agent,Gravity and a couple of others are all enthusiastically used by
others here.

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John.

[Abandoned Trolley]

Thats OK then - I thought it might have been a typo for "XP"

[Julian Macassey]

On 13 Feb 2024 10:58:32 GMT, maus <ma...@deb2.org> wrote:
> On 2024-02-13, Abandoned Trolley <fr...@fred-smith.co.uk> wrote:
>
> slrn

I use slrn as well.

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fight for it. - Aneurin Bevan

[D]

On Tue, 13 Feb 2024, Julian Macassey wrote:

> On 13 Feb 2024 10:58:32 GMT, maus <ma...@deb2.org> wrote:
>> On 2024-02-13, Abandoned Trolley <fr...@fred-smith.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> slrn
>
> I use slrn as well.
>
>

I use alpine.

[Peter]

"Jeff Gaines" <jgne...@outlook.com> wrote in
news:xn0oi0sqd...@news.individual.net:

> On 13/02/2024 in message <uqed4i$1p0k5$1...@dont-email.me> Nar wrote:
>
>>Hi lads,
>>
>>What usenet client do you use, and what do you reckon the best usenet
>>client for a newbie is nowadays?
>>
>>I just use Windows Live Mail 2012 simply because it still works XD
>>(other than the occasional glitch here and there on Win10). Anyone
>>else on WLM?
>
>
> I have used XanaNews for years, never found anything as good:
>
> https://github.com/graemeg/xananews
>
> NOT to be confused with Xnews

I use Xnews. It's crude and basic (not Basic) and it suites me just fine.

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[Nicholas D. Richards]

In article <1qoucfe.5u4y6pw45hqiN%snip...@gmail.com>, Sn!pe
<snip...@gmail.com> on Tue, 13 Feb 2024 at 00:42:15 awoke Nicholas
from his slumbers and wrote

>Nar <a_...@riseup.net> wrote:
>
>> Hi lads,
>>
>> What usenet client do you use, and what do you reckon the best usenet client
>> for a newbie is nowadays?
>>
>> I just use Windows Live Mail 2012 simply because it still works XD (other
>> than the occasional glitch here and there on Win10). Anyone else on WLM?
>>
>> Electronically yours,
>> Nar,
>> a_...@riseup.net
>>
>
>For Windows: Microplanet Gravity as maintained by Steve Gibson at GRC.
>
><https://www.grc.com/discussions.htm> (page down)
><https://www.grc.com/files/GravitySetup.zip> (download link)
>

ATM I am still using Turnpike v5.02M for usenet. It still works and
satisfies my requirements. a comfortable old friend, unlike the
problems, costs (not inconsiderable) and exasperations that I now have
with emule as providers have progressively turned to Microsoft Exchange
Servers.
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[Ahem A Rivet's Shot]

On Tue, 13 Feb 2024 09:29:04 +0900
"Nar" <a_...@riseup.net> wrote:

> What usenet client do you use, and what do you reckon the best usenet
> client for a newbie is nowadays?

I've been using Sylpheed for a very long time as it has failed to
annoy me enough to change it.

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Odds and Ends at http://www.sohara.org/
For forms of government let fools contest
Whate're is best administered is best - Alexander Pope

[Kerr-Mudd, John]

I goov this sums it up; Ye Shedde is a house of many views.
It's no good asking for 1 recommendation!


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[chrisnd @ukrm]

On 13/02/2024 00:42, Sn!pe wrote:
> Nar <a_...@riseup.net> wrote:
>
>> Hi lads,
>>
>> What usenet client do you use, and what do you reckon the best usenet client
>> for a newbie is nowadays?
>>
>> I just use Windows Live Mail 2012 simply because it still works XD (other
>> than the occasional glitch here and there on Win10). Anyone else on WLM?
>>
>> Electronically yours,
>> Nar,
>> a_...@riseup.net
>>
>
> For Windows: Microplanet Gravity as maintained by Steve Gibson at GRC.
>
> <https://www.grc.com/discussions.htm> (page down)
> <https://www.grc.com/files/GravitySetup.zip> (download link)
>

Me too (when in winndoze)

Chris
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[Mike Fleming]

ditto

[Richard Robinson]

I use slrn


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[Peter]

"Kerr-Mudd, John" <ad...@127.0.0.1> wrote in
news:20240213130936.d9fc...@127.0.0.1:

>
> I goov this sums it up; Ye Shedde is a house of many views.
> It's no good asking for 1 recommendation!
>

Wise words.

--
Peter
-----

[Richard Robinson]

Nah, asking's fine. Just so long as you know what to expect ...

[Brian Gaff]

Does it not get orphaned every major update? I am using Outlet express but
now its lost its ability to see its own passwords and no amount of hacking
will get it to find them. Luckily I have a list of them and can type them in
but its getting a little tiresome. Sadly Outlook no longer does it and Tbird
seems to be very hard to use for a blind person.
Brian

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[Brian Gaff]

And the stupid overkill of google mails second factor authorisation. For the
average emailer none of that is of any use and it just makes it harder to
transfer between machines.

Brian


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[Sam Plusnet]

On 13-Feb-24 0:42, Sn!pe wrote:
> Nar <a_...@riseup.net> wrote:
>
>> Hi lads,
>>
>> What usenet client do you use, and what do you reckon the best usenet client
>> for a newbie is nowadays?
>>
>> I just use Windows Live Mail 2012 simply because it still works XD (other
>> than the occasional glitch here and there on Win10). Anyone else on WLM?
>>
>> Electronically yours,
>> Nar,
>> a_...@riseup.net
>>
>
> For Windows: Microplanet Gravity as maintained by Steve Gibson at GRC.
>
> <https://www.grc.com/discussions.htm> (page down)
> <https://www.grc.com/files/GravitySetup.zip> (download link)
>

Thanks for that.
Gravity was my preferred Usenet client for yonks - until it suddenly
stopped working, several years back, for no apparent reason. Nothing I
tried got it going again.
Thunderbird was available so...
I'm off to (re) install Gravity.

--
Sam Plusnet

[Kerr Mudd-John]

In article <l31ffn...@mid.individual.net>, chr...@privacy.net
says...

>
> On 13/02/2024 00:42, Sn!pe wrote:
> > Nar <a_...@riseup.net> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi lads,
> >>
> >> What usenet client do you use, and what do you reckon the best usenet client
> >> for a newbie is nowadays?
> >>
> >> I just use Windows Live Mail 2012 simply because it still works XD (other
> >> than the occasional glitch here and there on Win10). Anyone else on WLM?
> >>
> >> Electronically yours,
> >> Nar,
> >> a_...@riseup.net
> >>
> >
> > For Windows: Microplanet Gravity as maintained by Steve Gibson at GRC.
> >
> > <https://www.grc.com/discussions.htm> (page down)
> > <https://www.grc.com/files/GravitySetup.zip> (download link)
> >
> Me too (when in winndoze)
>

I've just dled it - seems I already had a version from playing ages back
it took a bit of wrestling to find what I wanted - (Body Font) but
looking good.


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[Kerr Mudd-John]

In article <2JPyN.323530$7sbb....@fx16.iad>, n...@home.com says...

I've just dled it - seems I already had a version from playing ages back

-

[Kerr-Mudd, John]

Aha, I got through! twice.

[Simon]

On 2024-02-13, Nar <a_...@riseup.net> wrote:
> Hi lads,
>
> What usenet client do you use, and what do you reckon the best usenet client
> for a newbie is nowadays?
>
> I just use Windows Live Mail 2012 simply because it still works XD (other
> than the occasional glitch here and there on Win10). Anyone else on WLM?
>
> Electronically yours,
> Nar,
> a_...@riseup.net
>

I use slrn because I always have since I switched to Linux. It gives
a sense of old school and displays things like html as the code not a
spam trap :-)

I am old, so is my software :-)

--
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RLU: 222126

[Simon]

Is Agent Forte Agent? I did try that when I had Windows in '95 and
IIRC bought a licence. Forgot all about it, a magical application at
the time. :-)
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RLU: 222126

[Mike Fleming]

On 13/02/2024 13:09, Kerr-Mudd, John wrote:
>
> I goov this sums it up; Ye Shedde is a house of many views.
> It's no good asking for 1 recommendation!

There will always be at least n+1 opinions, where n is the number of
posters to the thread.

[Tease'n'Seize]

Simon wrote:

> Is Agent Forte Agent? I did try that when I had Windows in '95 and
> IIRC bought a licence. Forgot all about it,

Yes I bought a Trumpet Winsock licence and an Agent licence

> a magical application at
> the time. :-)

Unfortunately (in my eyes) it still looks like a program from 1994

[Sam Plusnet]

Follows up own post...

I installed & got Gravity to jbex, sort of.

I can download both headers and 'articles' but whilst the "Thread" pane
shows the Headers, the "Article" pane refuses to show me the post body -
which kind of defeats the whole purpose.

I haven't a clue why it's playing silly bludgers with me.

--
Sam Plusnet

[Bernard Peek]

On 2024-02-13, Nar <a_...@riseup.net> wrote:
> Hi lads,
>
> What usenet client do you use, and what do you reckon the best usenet client
> for a newbie is nowadays?
>
> I just use Windows Live Mail 2012 simply because it still works XD (other
> than the occasional glitch here and there on Win10). Anyone else on WLM?

Welcome to Ye Shedde.

I'm using SLRN on a Linux machine. I can connect to it from whichever
machine I'm using around the house.

On Windows I've previously used Thunderbird. Before that the late, lamented,
Turnpike.



--
Bernard Peek
b...@shrdlu.com
Wigan

[Hymermut]

On 14/02/2024 19:59, Sam Plusnet wrote:

>
> I installed & got Gravity to jbex, sort of.
>

I'm so glad. The thought of you drifting off into space to join George
Clooney concerned me.

Tone

[Sam Plusnet]

Me also as well. Clooney is not really my type.
(Or do I mean font?)

--
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[Hymermut]

I think I'm more font of Sandra Bullock.

Tone

[Nicholas D. Richards]

In article <l34qbl...@mid.individual.net>, Bernard Peek
<b...@shrdlu.com> on Wed, 14 Feb 2024 at 21:41:09 awoke Nicholas from
his slumbers and wrote

Turnpike 9under W7) still works with E-S. E-mule depends upon which
supplier you are using.

[Adrian]

In message <d2poVWAO...@salmiron.com>, Nicholas D. Richards
<nich...@salmiron.com> writes

Turnpike (Under W10/32) still works with E-S, and works fine with my
E-mule provider. If Turnpike is late, no one has told my installation.

Adrian
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