Re: Need advice on a good news reader that cross post behind my back!

"Garry Freemyer" <garryfre@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> I just discovered that this MigraineSlop Express has two problems that was
> forcing me to spam without my knowing it!!
>
> 1. I cannot reply via email because this program has only one mailbox config
> option, when my ISP requires two, one for incoming and one for outgoing.
> Thus, I have to reply to group.
>
> 2. I just discovered that if I reply to a person who has cross posted, my
> replies also go to all the groups they have posted to. This is a terribly
> dumb thing for a news reader to do. No wonder people are getting pissed off
> at me!!!
>
> I could go google for a freeware one, and get one that has some other
> grevious flaw, security leak or some other equally grossly unacceptable
> behavior, or I could ask the good folks here what I should use and bypass
> all traps and gotchas.
>
> PS, my isp is SBC which I've decided stands or st*upid blasted crossposting,
> if that's any help.
>
> Thanks, sorry for the cross posts!
>
> I should have switched away from this thing ages ago, but I was lazy, got
> sick of having to install yet another program, remember yet another
> billionth password, otherwise I'd be confining a lot of my replies to emails
> and not clogging up the newsgroups.
>
> --
> To reply to this message take off the .NoJunkSpam off of the end of
> garryfre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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