I'm going to change platforms for email and news.
What is your favorite newsreader, and _why_?

ll wrote:

> I'm going to change platforms for email and news.
> What is your favorite newsreader, and _why_?

KNode. Because it does what I need. This information will be useless to
you since you can't run KNode anyway. It is better for you to try
several newsreaders and see which one you like best. Here are a few
aside from Outlook Express:

http://www.forteinc.com/agent/index.php - for Forte
http://www.mozilla.org
http://gravity.tbates.org/
http://www.40tude.com/dialog/
http://xnews.newsguy.com/

And here are a few links discussing how to set up OE for reading news:
http://michaelstevenstech.com/outloo...snewreader.htm
http://rickrogers.org/setupoe.htm

Malke
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MS-MVP Windows User/Shell
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In article <439C6A1F.E0FEF87A@REMOVEcomcastTHIS.net>,
lkslittle@REMOVEcomcastTHIS.net, ll says...

> I'm going to change platforms for email and news.
> What is your favorite newsreader, and _why_?
>

Depends?........What do you want to do with it?

Quite a few Newsreaders come to mind that I have used/expiremented with,
some are terrific for "just only" specific features............
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"ll" <lkslittle@REMOVEcomcastTHIS.net> wrote in message
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> I'm going to change platforms for email and news.
> What is your favorite newsreader, and _why_?


Why would we care about YOU changing platforms?
Why do you care what WE use for an NNTP client?
Trial several of them and make YOUR own choice.

ll wrote:

> I'm going to change platforms for email and news.
> What is your favorite newsreader, and _why_?


Outlook Express. Because it does everything I want it to do, does it easily,
does it without problems, has an interface that suits my style, and doesn't
cost me anything. I've tried others, but keep coming back to Outlook
Express.

But my view is that asking questions like this doesn't do you any good.
Knowing what *I* like best, or even what all of us here like best, doesn't
do you any good.

You'll likely get votes for almost every newsreader out there. Then what do
you do? Count the votes for each one, and decide that the most popular is
the best?

The newsreader that suits my style best doesn't necessarily suit your style
the best. Instead of asking others for opinions, why not try them yourself,
and see what *you* like best. This is particularly easy to do with
newsreaders, since most are either freeware or shareware, with a free trial
period.

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In article <439C6A1F.E0FEF87A@REMOVEcomcastTHIS.net>,
lkslittle@REMOVEcomcastTHIS.net says...
> I'm going to change platforms for email and news.
> What is your favorite newsreader, and _why_?

Platform would be the OS, not a application running on the same OS.

Anything non-MS will work better and almost always be more secure.

For email I use MS Outlook 2003 because I have a firewall, strip
attachments hitting our exchange server, and understand security well
enough to not get compromised.

For clients, where they don't have the ability to strip attachments out
of their email BEFORE it reaches their computers, I suggest Thunderbird.

For Usenet, since I don't do Binaries, I use Super Gravity, it's been
around for a LONG time and is currently Open Source (free). It runs on
Windows 98 and above, is text based, can decode binaries, allows
different sigs/headers for different groups, multiple servers can be
setup, and you can export/import the control file between machines if
you need too. It is a windows Only application.

If you change from Windows to Linux, there are several options, but PAN
is not one that I like.

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Malke wrote:
> It is better for you to try several newsreaders and see which
> one you like best.

I was hoping to at least winnow the field down some so that I
would not have to install, and uninstall, lots of randomly
chosen applications.


ByTor wrote:
> Depends?........What do you want to do with it?

Read and send email. Read and post news. Mostly just text-based,
with the occasional attachment, typically a draft word doc to the
work email address or an occasional jpeg to friends or family.
I'll have Word/Outlook/etc on the new computer.

Vanguard wrote:
> (useless response)


Ken Blake wrote:
> Outlook Express. Because it does everything I want it to do,
> does it easily, does it without problems, has an interface
> that suits my style, and doesn't cost me anything.

Hmmm. One tends to hear a much _broader_ range of views
about OE than about other newsreaders. Why is that?

> The newsreader that suits my style best doesn't necessarily
> suit your style the best. Instead of asking others for opinions,
> why not try them yourself,

Good point. That's the reason that I asked _why_, so I can
see if I have a similar need/use. I figure that I'll end up
trying a couple. I'd just like that couple not to be random
choices, but some which other skilled users have recommended.

It's not unlike restaurant or movie reviews. I value other
informed opinions, and then I sift them through my own values.

ll wrote:

>> The newsreader that suits my style best doesn't necessarily
>> suit your style the best. Instead of asking others for opinions,
>> why not try them yourself,
>
> Good point. That's the reason that I asked _why_, so I can
> see if I have a similar need/use. I figure that I'll end up
> trying a couple. I'd just like that couple not to be random
> choices, but some which other skilled users have recommended.
>
> It's not unlike restaurant or movie reviews. I value other
> informed opinions, and then I sift them through my own values.


I have a particular friend who I've known for many years. If he recommends a
movie or a restaurant, I will almost always give it a try. That's because
when we've compared our experiences over the years, we very often have the
same reaction to movies and restaurants. If I read the movie and restaurant
reviews in our local paper, I always ignore them, because I've learned by
experience that any correlation between the reviewers view of these things
and my own is completely random.

So my point is that getting recommendations from people who you know and
trust to have views similar to yours can be of value. But getting reviews
from a random group of people, like a bunch of strangers on a newsgroup, is
generally a waste of time.

That's my two cents. You're free, of course, to disagree, and go your own
way.

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Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
Please reply to the newsgroup

OE every time.. it's easy, free and does what I want of a newsreader..

--
Mike Hall
MVP - Windows Shell/User


"ll" <lkslittle@REMOVEcomcastTHIS.net> wrote in message
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> I'm going to change platforms for email and news.
> What is your favorite newsreader, and _why_?

On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 10:04:18 -0800, ll
<lkslittle@REMOVEcomcastTHIS.net> wrote:

>I'm going to change platforms for email and news.
>What is your favorite newsreader, and _why_?

Free agent and its not MS.