Slightly Off-Topic: Newsreaders

Greetings

I'm fairly new to newsgroups and am currently using X-News as my news
client.

Is X-News considered to be a decent newsreader or are there others that are
better.

Thanks for your help.

diesel wrote:

> Greetings
>
> I'm fairly new to newsgroups and am currently using X-News as my news
> client.
>
> Is X-News considered to be a decent newsreader or are there others that are
> better.
>
> Thanks for your help.

Thunderbird....

http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/

Zapp Brannigan <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> diesel wrote:
>
> > Greetings
> >
> > I'm fairly new to newsgroups and am currently using X-News as my news
> > client.
> >
> > Is X-News considered to be a decent newsreader or are there others that are
> > better.
> >
> > Thanks for your help.
>
> Thunderbird....
>
> http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/

Start having a look on www.macorchard.com, there are most of them there.

You've basically asked a taboo question, there isn't a better news
reader, it depends on what you prefer.

Personally I like the rather simplistic MacSOUP, but mainly because it
has a graphical thread display I have yet to find a replcament for.

You may also want to look up Unison and MTNewsWatcherX.

All the best.

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On 07 Feb 2004, diesel wrote

> Greetings
>
> I'm fairly new to newsgroups and am currently using X-News as my
> news client.
>
> Is X-News considered to be a decent newsreader or are there others
> that are better.

XNews isn't everyone's cup of tea -- some people find the configuration
a bit fiddly -- but apart from a few very strange people, nobody will
question your choice of choosing to use it. It's a solid piece of kit.

I've also used XNews from my earliest days of exploring newsgroups, and
have no desire to switch. I'm not a power user, but the features that
I *do* use, I really like:

- it fixes Outlook Express's bad sig delimiter for me
- I use a bit of scoring; useful
- it lets me have vertical rather than horizontal division of panes for
the message tree and message body
- it automatically changes the relative screen space between the
tree/body when I open messages

That said, there are a lot of free newsreaders out there -- Dialog,
Gravity, etc. (and some new ones, like XanaNews) -- which are probably
well worth trying to see if one of them suits you better.

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Andy Hewitt <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:


> You may also want to look up Unison and MTNewsWatcherX.

My apologies, please ignore my reply. There is a very similarly named
newsreader on Mac OSX, which I had mixed it up with.

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http://www.thehewitts.plus.com - now online

diesel <noemail> wrote:
> Greetings
>
> I'm fairly new to newsgroups and am currently using X-News as my news
> client.
>
> Is X-News considered to be a decent newsreader or are there others that are
> better.

Tin, the one true newsreader.

http://www.tin.org/

Fast, not too hard to learn, and does exactly what it says on the tin.

In article <Xns9488BC5293195eznowrudeboy@195.129.110.201>, diesel <noemail>
says...
> Greetings
>
> I'm fairly new to newsgroups and am currently using X-News as my news
> client.
>
> Is X-News considered to be a decent newsreader or are there others that are
> better.

You're not using Outlook Exploit. You're better than 90% of the people out
there!

I personally don't like X-News. I use Gravity instead. It's free, and pretty
good. The news reader that's part of Thunderbird is actually very good too.

HTH

Pete.

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Harvey Van Sickle shocked all on uk.telecom.broadband at Sat, 07 Feb 2004
20:12:45 GMT by suggesting:

> On 07 Feb 2004, diesel wrote
>
>
> XNews isn't everyone's cup of tea -- some people find the configuration
> a bit fiddly -- but apart from a few very strange people, nobody will
> question your choice of choosing to use it. It's a solid piece of kit.
>

Seconded, Xnews is a great little newsreader, I love it


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On Sun, 8 Feb 2004 11:42:33 UTC, Pete Smith <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

> I personally don't like X-News. I use Gravity instead. It's free, and pretty
> good. The news reader that's part of Thunderbird is actually very good too.

Very happy with my newsreader, but it's not for the masses!

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Bob Eager
begin by not using Outlook Express...

On 07 Feb 2004 18:32:11 GMT, diesel <noemail> wrote:

>Greetings
>
>I'm fairly new to newsgroups and am currently using X-News as my news
>client.
>
>Is X-News considered to be a decent newsreader or are there others that are
>better.

I use Free Agent.

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Jock.