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The best newsreader
I know we've been down this road before, but will someone remind me which is the best, in their opinion, off-line newsreader? I'm out of the rut of considering Agent to be the best all-around news and email reader after installing and using Eudora for a few days, and I don't even have the paid version yet with the extra spam-blocking features. So I might as well go for a stand-alone newsreader as well, if I can find a better one than Agent.
I'd like a reader which allows the user to specify where posts are stored so they can be easily restored if the program has to be reinstalled. I'd also like one with fewer "features" and options, like Xnews but designed for off-line use.
Any suggestions?
Charles Riggs
I'd like a reader which allows the user to specify where posts are stored so they can be easily restored if the program has to be reinstalled. I'd also like one with fewer "features" and options, like Xnews but designed for off-line use.
Any suggestions?
Charles Riggs
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[nq:1]I know we've been down this road before, but will someone remind me which is the best, in their opinion, ... be reinstalled. I'd also like one with fewer "features" and options, like Xnews but designed for off-line use.
- [nq:1]I know we've been down this road before, but will someone remind me which is the best, in their opinion, ...
- be reinstalled.
- I'd also like one with fewer "features" and options, like Xnews but designed for off-line use.
- [/nq] Two suggestions - Netscape did everything I wanted, but had two problems.
- It installed the whole Netscape suite which I didn't want, and I could find no way of getting it to launch IE6 instead of Netscape Navigator when clicking on a URL.
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[nq:1]I know we've been down this road before, but will someone remind me which is the best, in their opinion, ... be reinstalled. I'd also like one with fewer "features" and options, like Xnews but designed for off-line use. Any suggestions?[/nq]
Two suggestions - Netscape did everything I wanted, but had two problems. It installed the whole Netscape suite which I didn't want, and I could fin
Two suggestions - Netscape did everything I wanted, but had two problems. It installed the whole Netscape suite which I didn't want, and I could fin
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[nq:2]I know we've been down this road before, but will ... options, like Xnews but designed for off-line use. Any suggestions?[/nq]
[nq:1]Two suggestions - Netscape did everything I wanted, but had two problems. It installed the whole Netscape suite which I ... has dozens of options, but you don't have to use them - out of the box seems to work well.[/nq]
Gravity looks very nice.
Afte
[nq:1]Two suggestions - Netscape did everything I wanted, but had two problems. It installed the whole Netscape suite which I ... has dozens of options, but you don't have to use them - out of the box seems to work well.[/nq]
Gravity looks very nice.
Afte
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[nq:2]Two suggestions - Netscape did everything I wanted, but had ... them - out of the box seems to work well.[/nq]
[nq:1]Gravity looks very nice. After some amount of fiddling, though, I haven't been able to figure out how to retrieve and store the bodies for all the headers, or a number of selected headers, without double-clicking on each one, online.[/nq]
menu Newsgroup > Properties
[nq:1]Gravity looks very nice. After some amount of fiddling, though, I haven't been able to figure out how to retrieve and store the bodies for all the headers, or a number of selected headers, without double-clicking on each one, online.[/nq]
menu Newsgroup > Properties
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[nq:1]I am now using MicroPlanet Gravity which is out of production but is released for free use.[/nq]
My main hesitation about Gravity is that you say it doesn't kill posts, merely marks them read. When I kill-file someone, I don't want their posts anywhere on my computer.
Now, having said that, sometimes after the fact I want to read the post. Xnews has two really good features fo
My main hesitation about Gravity is that you say it doesn't kill posts, merely marks them read. When I kill-file someone, I don't want their posts anywhere on my computer.
Now, having said that, sometimes after the fact I want to read the post. Xnews has two really good features fo
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[nq:2]I am now using MicroPlanet Gravity which is out of production but is released for free use.[/nq]
[nq:1]My main hesitation about Gravity is that you say it doesn't kill posts, merely marks them read. When I kill-file ... Reconstruct Thread command, by which it will retrieve an entire thread, kill-filed posts and all. Does Gravity have similar features?[/nq]
Gravity's killfile is calle
[nq:1]My main hesitation about Gravity is that you say it doesn't kill posts, merely marks them read. When I kill-file ... Reconstruct Thread command, by which it will retrieve an entire thread, kill-filed posts and all. Does Gravity have similar features?[/nq]
Gravity's killfile is calle
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[nq:2]I am now using MicroPlanet Gravity which is out of production but is released for free use.[/nq]
[nq:1]My main hesitation about Gravity is that you say it doesn't kill posts, merely marks them read. When I kill-file ... you can click on a button, and Xnews will instantly retrieve the post, even if it had originally kill-filed it.[/nq]
I really like that feature, too. I use Ctrl+Backs
[nq:1]My main hesitation about Gravity is that you say it doesn't kill posts, merely marks them read. When I kill-file ... you can click on a button, and Xnews will instantly retrieve the post, even if it had originally kill-filed it.[/nq]
I really like that feature, too. I use Ctrl+Backs
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[nq:1]I'd like a reader which allows the user to specify where posts are stored so they can be easily restored if the program has to be reinstalled. I'd also like one with fewer "features" and options, like Xnews but designed for off-line use. Any suggestions?[/nq]
Have you looked into using XNews with Hamster?
I've not done it (since I use it on-line), but the people i
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[nq:2]I am now using MicroPlanet Gravity which is out of production but is released for free use.[/nq]
[nq:1]My main hesitation about Gravity is that you say it doesn't kill posts, merely marks them read. When I kill-file ... Reconstruct Thread command, by which it will retrieve an entire thread, kill-filed posts and all. Does Gravity have similar features?[/nq]
I'm not sure. Having said t
[nq:1]My main hesitation about Gravity is that you say it doesn't kill posts, merely marks them read. When I kill-file ... Reconstruct Thread command, by which it will retrieve an entire thread, kill-filed posts and all. Does Gravity have similar features?[/nq]
I'm not sure. Having said t
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[nq:1](Charles explicitly asked for recommendations for an off-line reader, though something like XNews, but designed for off-line use and whilst I understand it's possible to make XNews work offline with Hamster, I think it still works best if used on-line.)[/nq]
Yes. I liked nearly everything about it except for the difficulties with using it offline. I may get used to Gravity, but I rather
Yes. I liked nearly everything about it except for the difficulties with using it offline. I may get used to Gravity, but I rather
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[nq:2]Does Gravity have similar features?[/nq]
[nq:1]I'm not sure. Having said that, I also don't know what its action is on killfiled posters when working offline. ... any case. My list currently contains 7 names, but some of these are fake identities and others are rampant spammers.[/nq]
With 63 names currently in my killfile at times, growing; at times, shrinking I'm more catholic. (Not
[nq:1]I'm not sure. Having said that, I also don't know what its action is on killfiled posters when working offline. ... any case. My list currently contains 7 names, but some of these are fake identities and others are rampant spammers.[/nq]
With 63 names currently in my killfile at times, growing; at times, shrinking I'm more catholic. (Not
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