Re: [CGUYS] usenet news reader

2008-04-20 Thread rlsimon
I read newsgroups (certain specialty newsgroups are quite useful in some technical areas) offline, so I use Newsbin to download the selected items and store them to look at later ...it is quite customizable. My ISP (ATT.net) furnishes newsgroup access included in the price. Seeing newsgroups "go

Re: [CGUYS] usenet news reader

2008-04-19 Thread b_s-wilk
I thought newsgroups has gone away. silly me! I use the one in Thunderbird. It has the same interface as the mail. Easy, convenient. Not the best, but well bundled, and free. It's pretty much the same as the one we used in Mozilla and Netscape. Betty **

Re: [CGUYS] usenet news reader

2008-04-18 Thread John Duncan Yoyo
I'll throw my two cents in for Agent. I also use their newsfeeds. I really hate the ones that open lots of individual windows. On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 7:18 PM, Marcio V. Pinheiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Agent had newer versions and for about two dollars a month thet connect you > with the n

Re: [CGUYS] usenet news reader

2008-04-18 Thread Marcio V. Pinheiro
Agent had newer versions and for about two dollars a month thet connect you with the newsgroup. Marcio At 06:01 PM 4/18/2008, you wrote: Any body out there still using a standalone usenet news reader? Any recommendations? I had been using free agent 1.1, but it is a bit old, so I was wonderin

Re: [CGUYS] usenet news reader

2008-04-18 Thread Chris Dunford
Nothing else even comes close to Agent (the paid version, not Free Agent). It's not very expensive. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at

Re: [CGUYS] usenet news reader

2008-04-18 Thread Judy Cosler
I thought newsgroups has gone away. silly me! mike wrote: When I had a provider that actually provided this service I used xnews. It was handy with binaries, I didn't do a lot of just reading. For that you might look at mozilla Thunderbird, I find that to be a small fast usenet/RSS client. I'

Re: [CGUYS] usenet news reader

2008-04-18 Thread mike
When I had a provider that actually provided this service I used xnews. It was handy with binaries, I didn't do a lot of just reading. For that you might look at mozilla Thunderbird, I find that to be a small fast usenet/RSS client. I've never really used it for email. I like it's interface for

[CGUYS] usenet news reader

2008-04-18 Thread Arthur Poudrier
Any body out there still using a standalone usenet news reader? Any recommendations? I had been using free agent 1.1, but it is a bit old, so I was wondering what I was missing. Cheap=good, free=better. I don't really like the web interfaces available for reading them on-line. Thanks, Arthur