RC

Richard Clements

11/08/2004 6:20 PM

OT: what is a good windows newsreader

I run knode on my Linux box, but sometimes I need to be booted as
windows, I installed thunderbird (mozilla news & mail client) it's ok,
still looking for something better and ideas?


This topic has 20 replies

Ww

WD

in reply to Richard Clements on 11/08/2004 6:20 PM

12/08/2004 4:31 PM

On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 20:46:39 -0400, Bill Rogers <[email protected]> wrote:

I'm concur with you I have been using Forte Agent since the early nineties.

>Windows: Free Agent! if you want to receive email and have other
>controls, then get the full version, Agent. However, FA is the best
>newsreader.
>
>Bill.

Ww

WD

in reply to Richard Clements on 11/08/2004 6:20 PM

12/08/2004 4:33 PM

On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 21:54:07 -0700, Larry Jaques <novalidaddress@di\/ersify.com>
wrote:

It's sooo good that I paid another $15 upgrade to version 2.

>On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 01:40:33 GMT, Lazarus Long <[email protected]>
>calmly ranted:
>
>>Since you've tried the rest, now try the best: Agent
>>
>>you can get it at www.forteinc.com
>>
>>It's not a freebie. If you want a little less full featured version,
>>you can get freeagent. Almost as good for no $
>
>I paid $30 for it (after trying Free Agent for a few months
>and falling in love with it) and have used it for 10 years.
>I figure $3/yr is a good price for an excellent newsreader.
>
>
> -- Friends Don't Let Friends Eat Turkey and Drive --

JC

Joseph Crowe

in reply to Richard Clements on 11/08/2004 6:20 PM

13/08/2004 10:14 AM

Hi Richard,
Richard Clements wrote:
> I run knode on my Linux box, but sometimes I need to be booted as
> windows, I installed thunderbird (mozilla news & mail client) it's ok,
> still looking for something better and ideas?

I use Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.1 for several reasons. First of all
it provides all of my needs from email to Usenet. Second of all, it's
open source and essentially free. Third, its behaviour is almost
completely consistent across the platforms I use--Windows, MacOS X and
Linux. If you have any interest, check it out at:

www.mozilla.org

LJ

Larry Jaques

in reply to Richard Clements on 11/08/2004 6:20 PM

11/08/2004 9:54 PM

On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 01:40:33 GMT, Lazarus Long <[email protected]>
calmly ranted:

>Since you've tried the rest, now try the best: Agent
>
>you can get it at www.forteinc.com
>
>It's not a freebie. If you want a little less full featured version,
>you can get freeagent. Almost as good for no $

I paid $30 for it (after trying Free Agent for a few months
and falling in love with it) and have used it for 10 years.
I figure $3/yr is a good price for an excellent newsreader.


-- Friends Don't Let Friends Eat Turkey and Drive --

DH

Dave Hinz

in reply to Richard Clements on 11/08/2004 6:20 PM

12/08/2004 4:04 PM

On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 18:20:06 -0600, Richard Clements <[email protected]> wrote:
> I run knode on my Linux box, but sometimes I need to be booted as
> windows, I installed thunderbird (mozilla news & mail client) it's ok,
> still looking for something better and ideas?

Forte agent doesn't suck. They even have a free version (oddly enough,
called "Free Agent" which also doesn't suck much. I've never been
happy with any of Netscape/Mozilla's newsreaders either.

Dave Hinz

JC

John Carlson

in reply to Richard Clements on 11/08/2004 6:20 PM

12/08/2004 1:38 AM

I like Agent http://www.forteinc.com/agent/index.php

There's a freeware version called Free Agent that you can start with.

On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 18:20:06 -0600, Richard Clements
<[email protected]> wrote:

>I run knode on my Linux box, but sometimes I need to be booted as
>windows, I installed thunderbird (mozilla news & mail client) it's ok,
>still looking for something better and ideas?

-- jc
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If e-mailing me, please use jc631 at optonline dot net

b

in reply to Richard Clements on 11/08/2004 6:20 PM

12/08/2004 11:35 AM

On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 18:20:06 -0600, Richard Clements
<[email protected]> wrote:

>I run knode on my Linux box, but sometimes I need to be booted as
>windows, I installed thunderbird (mozilla news & mail client) it's ok,
>still looking for something better and ideas?


agent.

http://www.forteinc.com/main/homepage.php

LJ

Larry Jaques

in reply to Richard Clements on 11/08/2004 6:20 PM

12/08/2004 9:36 PM

On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 09:19:51 -0500, Lazarus Long
<[email protected]> calmly ranted:

>On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 21:54:07 -0700, Larry Jaques
><novalidaddress@di\/ersify.com> wrote:
>
>>On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 01:40:33 GMT, Lazarus Long <[email protected]>
>>calmly ranted:
>>
>>>Since you've tried the rest, now try the best: Agent
>>>
>>>you can get it at www.forteinc.com
>>>
>>>It's not a freebie. If you want a little less full featured version,
>>>you can get freeagent. Almost as good for no $
>>
>>I paid $30 for it (after trying Free Agent for a few months
>>and falling in love with it) and have used it for 10 years.
>>I figure $3/yr is a good price for an excellent newsreader.
>>
>>
>
>Yep. Me too. I've been using for Agent 1.x for years, now Agent 2.x
>is out, there's a small charge to upgrade. It's peanuts for such a
>good program.

I tried the upgrade and decided that it didn't warrant the fee
at all, at least not for my purposes. I'll wait for the next
bug fix/feature addition, like being able to filter for more
than just email address or title. I've wanted that for years
now. When you plonk someone, you'd like the replies to that
idiot plonked as well, knowwhatImean,Vern? Filtering message
bodies is the only way to do that, and they still haven't
set up for that. <sigh> Other than that, I love the prog.
I've never lost a database and have lost only 3 indices in the
multiple-instance daily use I've given it for ten years.
It's a helluva program.

------------------------------
Gator: The other white meat!
------------------------------
http://www.diversify.com Comprehensive Website Development

pp

patriarch <[email protected]>

in reply to Richard Clements on 11/08/2004 6:20 PM

12/08/2004 2:48 PM

Larry Jaques <novalidaddress@di\/ersify.com> wrote in
news:[email protected]:

> On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 01:40:33 GMT, Lazarus Long <[email protected]>
> calmly ranted:
>
>>Since you've tried the rest, now try the best: Agent
>>
>>you can get it at www.forteinc.com
>>
>>It's not a freebie. If you want a little less full featured version,
>>you can get freeagent. Almost as good for no $
>
> I paid $30 for it (after trying Free Agent for a few months
> and falling in love with it) and have used it for 10 years.
> I figure $3/yr is a good price for an excellent newsreader.
>
>
> -- Friends Don't Let Friends Eat Turkey and Drive --
>

xnews does eveything I need a newsreader to do. xnews.newsguy.com

Patriarch

BR

Bill Rogers

in reply to Richard Clements on 11/08/2004 6:20 PM

11/08/2004 8:46 PM

On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 18:20:06 -0600, Richard Clements
<[email protected]> wrote:

>I run knode on my Linux box, but sometimes I need to be booted as
>windows, I installed thunderbird (mozilla news & mail client) it's ok,
>still looking for something better and ideas?

Windows: Free Agent! if you want to receive email and have other
controls, then get the full version, Agent. However, FA is the best
newsreader.

Bill.

Aa

"AArDvarK"

in reply to Richard Clements on 11/08/2004 6:20 PM

11/08/2004 5:28 PM


> I run knode on my Linux box, but sometimes I need to be booted as
> windows, I installed thunderbird (mozilla news & mail client) it's ok,
> still looking for something better and ideas?


X-News for Windows: http://xnews.newsguy.com/ a free reader and poster
with a little bit of a learning curve. Works well.

Alex

Jd

"Just_call_me_dusty"

in reply to Richard Clements on 11/08/2004 6:20 PM

12/08/2004 1:18 AM

free agent

--
Just as I was getting used to yesterday, along comes today.
"Richard Clements" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> I run knode on my Linux box, but sometimes I need to be booted as
> windows, I installed thunderbird (mozilla news & mail client) it's ok,
> still looking for something better and ideas?

LL

Lazarus Long

in reply to Richard Clements on 11/08/2004 6:20 PM

12/08/2004 9:19 AM

On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 21:54:07 -0700, Larry Jaques
<novalidaddress@di\/ersify.com> wrote:

>On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 01:40:33 GMT, Lazarus Long <[email protected]>
>calmly ranted:
>
>>Since you've tried the rest, now try the best: Agent
>>
>>you can get it at www.forteinc.com
>>
>>It's not a freebie. If you want a little less full featured version,
>>you can get freeagent. Almost as good for no $
>
>I paid $30 for it (after trying Free Agent for a few months
>and falling in love with it) and have used it for 10 years.
>I figure $3/yr is a good price for an excellent newsreader.
>
>

Yep. Me too. I've been using for Agent 1.x for years, now Agent 2.x
is out, there's a small charge to upgrade. It's peanuts for such a
good program.

sS

[email protected] (Scott Lurndal)

in reply to Richard Clements on 11/08/2004 6:20 PM

12/08/2004 5:07 PM

[email protected] (Scott Lurndal) writes:
>Richard Clements <[email protected]> writes:
>>I run knode on my Linux box, but sometimes I need to be booted as
>>windows, I installed thunderbird (mozilla news & mail client) it's ok,
>>still looking for something better and ideas?
>
>pan (www.rebelbase.org/pan) is avilable for both linux and windows.

Meant <http://pan.rebelbase.com/>

scott

>
>scott

b

in reply to Richard Clements on 11/08/2004 6:20 PM

14/08/2004 10:37 AM

On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 12:15:48 -0700, Pixmaker <[email protected]>
wrote:

>IMHO, it's Agent...free or otherwise.
>
>It's fast and logically arranged.
>
>I disable Outlook Express...it's the target platform for most of the
>infections!
>
> DaveinFLL



MS has made it harder and harder to do, but I remove OE completely
from my machines.

Jj

Joe

in reply to Richard Clements on 11/08/2004 6:20 PM

13/08/2004 10:50 PM

I'm using Agent...... right now.



On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 17:07:30 GMT, [email protected] (Scott Lurndal)
wrote:

>[email protected] (Scott Lurndal) writes:
>>Richard Clements <[email protected]> writes:
>>>I run knode on my Linux box, but sometimes I need to be booted as
>>>windows, I installed thunderbird (mozilla news & mail client) it's ok,
>>>still looking for something better and ideas?
>>
>>pan (www.rebelbase.org/pan) is avilable for both linux and windows.
>
>Meant <http://pan.rebelbase.com/>
>
>scott
>
>>
>>scott

Pp

Pixmaker

in reply to Richard Clements on 11/08/2004 6:20 PM

14/08/2004 12:15 PM

IMHO, it's Agent...free or otherwise.

It's fast and logically arranged.

I disable Outlook Express...it's the target platform for most of the
infections!

DaveinFLL
==========================
It's not the heat, it's the humidity!
==========================
(..Think the humidity's bad?
You should watch us vote!)

sS

[email protected] (Scott Lurndal)

in reply to Richard Clements on 11/08/2004 6:20 PM

12/08/2004 5:02 PM

Richard Clements <[email protected]> writes:
>I run knode on my Linux box, but sometimes I need to be booted as
>windows, I installed thunderbird (mozilla news & mail client) it's ok,
>still looking for something better and ideas?

pan (www.rebelbase.org/pan) is avilable for both linux and windows.

scott

LL

Lazarus Long

in reply to Richard Clements on 11/08/2004 6:20 PM

12/08/2004 1:40 AM

Since you've tried the rest, now try the best: Agent

you can get it at www.forteinc.com

It's not a freebie. If you want a little less full featured version,
you can get freeagent. Almost as good for no $

On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 18:20:06 -0600, Richard Clements
<[email protected]> wrote:

>I run knode on my Linux box, but sometimes I need to be booted as
>windows, I installed thunderbird (mozilla news & mail client) it's ok,
>still looking for something better and ideas?

sD

[email protected] (Doug Miller)

in reply to Richard Clements on 11/08/2004 6:20 PM

12/08/2004 12:34 AM

In article <[email protected]>, Richard Clements <[email protected]> wrote:
>I run knode on my Linux box, but sometimes I need to be booted as
>windows, I installed thunderbird (mozilla news & mail client) it's ok,
>still looking for something better and ideas?

I like NewsXpress and Microplanet Gravity.

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