> This is the only list I am on that is not on USENET. And this is the only banana I've eaten lately that didn't come off an apple tree. Your point?
> For one, I try not to > support anything running on, or owned by, Microsoft, ie Yahoo.groups. What does Microsoft have to do with Yahoo!Groups? > for another, they routinely attach blurbs with every post. Tell me about it. I've moved most of my lists from Yahoo (then eGroups) to a private host because of the advertising. > I wish I knew more about how USENET was > setup, but I like the idea of a user based system. User-based? What do you mean? USENET is a server-based system, and I know a lot of newsadmins who'd be rather annoyed with anyone suggesting the users had anything to do with the system. Filling up their nice shiny disks, yes, but the system, no. > And, in the posts, I routinely see webpages referred to, so then - I need > the browser. Ah, so you don't want your browser to access newsgroups, but you want a newsreader that recognises URLs and lets you click them? There aren't many modern newsreaders that don't support that -- in fact, offhand, I can only think of pine and *rn that don't, and they run on a terminal to cut'n'paste under X comes into play. In fact, Netscape is the only common browser that integrates the reader and browser -- even IE doesn't have them integrated in that way. Take a look at Virtual Access if you want an off-line reader, that's one I hear good things about. Some others are Forte Agent or Free Agent and XNews. Regards, Ben A L Jemmett. (http://web.ukonline.co.uk/ben.jemmett/, http://www.deltasoft.com/) To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
