Re: Newsreaders (was Re: T)
- From: scrape <scrapeNOTHANKS@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 02:58:40 GMT
On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 18:29:17 -0700, The Real Bev
<bashley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>J9_Honda_Trailrider_in_C0 wrote:
>>
>> Janine has braved another post, after spending all of last night
>> debugging my computer from the spyware & cookies this site has put onto
>> my laptop. Yikes! Bev, do tell me more about what you meant by using a
>> real newsreader.
>
>Reading news at google (web-based news) is difficult at best. There are other
>websites that translate usenet into whatever "forum" format they like, but
>they all pretty much suck.
>
>A real newsreader resides on your machine and downloads headers and messages
>from a usenet news server, probably provided by your ISP (comcast), probably
>for free. Any comcast people have specific knowledge here? If they don't,
>there are a number of free usenet feeds you can sign up for. One of the best
>used to be free but now charges something like $12/year -- which is close to
>free. To sign up, go to http://news.individual.net
>
>There's also one called news:news.x-privat.org (click that and see what
>happens -- you probably already have a newsreader and don't know it) which is
>free but requires you to sign up at
>http://www.x-privat.org/international.php. They've been down for a while but
>maybe they've solved the problem. I just sent them email, but haven't heard
>back yet. There's also a newsgroup called alt.free.newsservers that will
>probably list some more.
>
>With a newsfeed you will use your own newsreader. A newsreader comes with
>Windows (outlook or outlook express), one comes with Netscape or Mozilla, and
>a lot of people use Agent or Free Agent (slightly less capable, but costs
>nothing). There are others, and all have their adherents.
>
>If Comcast has its own news server, it will probably have instructions for
>configuring your own newsreader -- all you really need to know is the actual
>name of their news server which might be something like nntp.comcast.net, but
>it could be almost anything.
>
>You homework assignment, should you choose to accept it...
Quick point: Outlook Express has a (not very good, in my opinion)
newsreader, but Outlook does not.
Unless you're doing binaries, Free Agent is one of the best there is
for a Windows user.
.
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