Re: Software advice

Konrad Gaertner <kgaertner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> appears to have caused the
following letters to be typed in news:Xns973FDE00639ECgaertkaolcom@
204.127.36.1:

> "Matthew B. Tepper" <oyþ@earthlink.net> wrote in
> news:Xns973F6C890C1A0quackandflap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
>
>> Konrad Gaertner <kgaertner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> appears to have caused
>> the following letters to be typed in
>> news:43B95F07.B8D0CD3B@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
>>
>>> I should probably stop using Netscape 4 for everything, so what's
>>> a good newsreader with a similar look and feel? (I don't like the
>>> newer Netscapes, and I'll probably use Firefox for browsing.)
>>
>> I can't speak for newsreaders with a similar look and feel to
>> Netscape, but I am very fond of Xnews, which is very powerful and
>> freeware. Some people may recommend Agent, which I don't find nearly
>> as easy to use.
>
> Any luck getting it to work with a secure newsserver? Googling for
> instructions comes up with kludges that don't work (it looks like
> stunnel's behaviour changed drastically since those pages were updated).

If you mean Xnews, I use it fine both from home and from work, both with
Earthlink's news servers and with Newsguy.

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