Newsgroup Reader

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People are slamming OE for being a "brain dead" news group reader. What are
you using instead? I am using OE 6 and it isn't so bad. Maybe I just don't
know any better!!


Thanks
 
Spanky said:
People are slamming OE for being a "brain dead" news group reader. What are
you using instead? I am using OE 6 and it isn't so bad. Maybe I just don't
know any better!!


Thanks
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I use Thunderbird and Agent. Also if you just check the headers on the
messages they tell you the reader being used. OE works OK for lots of
people. If it works for you that all that matters. If you want to
check out different readers try this link:

http://www.newsreaders.com/

gls858
 
You will always get people on both sides.. use what you feel most
comfortable with..


Spanky McFly said:
People are slamming OE for being a "brain dead" news group reader. What
are you using instead? I am using OE 6 and it isn't so bad. Maybe I just
don't know any better!!


Thanks
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Mike Hall
MS MVP Windows Shell/User
http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/
 
People are slamming OE for being a "brain dead" news group reader. What are
you using instead? I am using OE 6 and it isn't so bad. Maybe I just don't
know any better!!
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Good and bad are relative terms. It depends what you use your
newsreader for, how often, if or not you run multiple instances to
connect to more than one newsgroup at a time, if you download
graphics, need support for automatic decoding of graphics, etc.. want
to let the newsreader hunt for posts by itself and so on. If you just
spend some time reading text only posts in sleeply little backwater
newsgroups like this then OE is probably fine.

I think a good analogy is people that spend a lot time in newsgroups
look down on OE because they know they can do way better, just like
people look down on people that have AOL accounts because they know
they see only a "filtered" view of the Internet.

Try here:

http://www.tucows.com/search?search...search_adv=0&search_size=&search_size_multi=b
 
OE and Windows Mail is working fine here. There were some early issues with
WM, but it's working acceptably now.
 
People are slamming OE for being a "brain dead" news group reader. What are
you using instead? I am using OE 6 and it isn't so bad. Maybe I just don't
know any better!!
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Yes, you just don't know any better.

OE is an email client that had Usenet access added into it once MS found
out there was an Internet. Vista's MAIL client suffers from the same
issue, it doesn't take Usenet or the documented standards into
consideration.

I've used a older program, now free, called Super Gravity for almost a
decade and it works find under Vista. I also use an Open Source product
called PAN. Both are free and both are designed for Usenet.
 
Spanky McFly said:
People are slamming OE for being a "brain dead" news group reader. What
are you using instead? I am using OE 6 and it isn't so bad. Maybe I just
don't know any better!!


Thanks
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Could never get comfortable with any other newsreader so stuck with OE. Am
now using Vistas Mail and that does the job in both mail and news but still
prefer OE
 
Leythos said:
Yes, you just don't know any better.

OE is an email client that had Usenet access added into it once MS found
out there was an Internet. Vista's MAIL client suffers from the same
issue, it doesn't take Usenet or the documented standards into
consideration.

I've used a older program, now free, called Super Gravity for almost a
decade and it works find under Vista. I also use an Open Source product
called PAN. Both are free and both are designed for Usenet.
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What you are overlooking is that most people's Usenet needs are
fully met with OE/WinMail. I for one don't need to combine binary
parts or do yEnc decoding. I only read text newsgroups, and
OE/WinMail does that quite well.

Gary VanderMolen
 
What you are overlooking is that most people's Usenet needs are
fully met with OE/WinMail. I for one don't need to combine binary
parts or do yEnc decoding. I only read text newsgroups, and
OE/WinMail does that quite well.
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Actually, as I've used Usenet since 84, I'm not overlooking anything. What
you don't seem to see/experience is that most people using OE treat Usenet
like email and don't even begin to understand the difference. They still
post as though it's email.

I personally only read text groups, been that way for decades, and I read
about 38 groups (try to just skim), and find that email clients my MS are
just not built properly. Even vista mail didn't work by default with
Usenet, not to mention that it complains if all you want is Usenet access
with it and not email.
 
Will said:
Could never get comfortable with any other newsreader so stuck with OE.
Am now using Vistas Mail and that does the job in both mail and news but
still prefer OE
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I used OE for ages but switched to Thunderbird because it
supported the yEnc decoding. OE did not. BTW, does the new
mail client in Vista support yEnc?
 
Gary VanderMolen said:
What you are overlooking is that most people's Usenet needs are
fully met with OE/WinMail. I for one don't need to combine binary
parts or do yEnc decoding. I only read text newsgroups, and OE/WinMail
does that quite well.
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Much agreed. People tend to get one thing stuck in their mind and are
incapable of seeing any other solution.

I believe the average person chooses to use a reader that is integrated with
an email app. It certainly seems to be the norm.

I tried newsbin once and it was a major pain. Plus I hated having yet
another app open especially since I already had OE open all the time anyway.
I found no benefit to using it at all. If I need to do some serious binary
NG downloading then I use GrabIt. But that's once in a blue moon. Other
wise, OE handles the occasional binary just fine for me.

But now I'm on WLMd. Basically the same thing.

Everyone is certainly encouraged to try different things and to choose for
themselves. However there is a very capable reader that already comes with
windows. But then again, if you don't use OE or thunderbird then having
another app open is well...having another app open, it might as well be
anything you want.
 
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