Posted by dashley@gmail.com on April 16, 2011, 11:16 pm
Just upgraded all my computers to Windows 7, which no longer has
Windows Mail or similar.
Windows Live Mail (now downloadable, but not quite the same product)
seems somewhat dysfunctional as a newsgroup reader.
Any recommendations?
Thanks, Dave A.
Posted by Dean Hoffman on April 17, 2011, 8:35 am
dashley@gmail.com wrote:
> Just upgraded all my computers to Windows 7, which no longer has
> Windows Mail or similar.
>
> Windows Live Mail (now downloadable, but not quite the same product)
> seems somewhat dysfunctional as a newsgroup reader.
>
> Any recommendations?
>
> Thanks, Dave A.
I ended up using Thunderbird from Mozilla on my Mac.
Link here: http://tinyurl.com/2mq5fl The price is
right.
Posted by J. Clarke on April 17, 2011, 9:54 am
says...
>
> dashley@gmail.com wrote:
> > Just upgraded all my computers to Windows 7, which no longer has
> > Windows Mail or similar.
> >
> > Windows Live Mail (now downloadable, but not quite the same product)
> > seems somewhat dysfunctional as a newsgroup reader.
> >
> > Any recommendations?
> >
> > Thanks, Dave A.
>
> I ended up using Thunderbird from Mozilla on my Mac.
> Link here: http://tinyurl.com/2mq5fl The price is
> right.
Microplanet Gravity works well and is free
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/mpgravity/files/Gravity%203.0/3.0.4/> .
Forte Agent is highly regarded but they did away with the free version
ages ago. <http://www.forteinc.com/main/homepage.php>
Someone is probably going to suggest 40tude Dialog. It works and is
very powerful but it's also quite complicated, poorly documented, and
development stopped in 2005.
There's a not terribly useful comparison of newsreaders at
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Usenet_newsreaders> .
I don't recall what I didn't like about Thunderbird but I did find it
lacking.
I've tried most of the newsreaders out there at one time or another and
I keep coming back to Gravity.
Posted by Beauregard T. Shagnasty on April 17, 2011, 10:37 am
J. Clarke wrote:
> Someone is probably going to suggest 40tude Dialog. It works and is
> very powerful but it's also quite complicated, poorly documented, and
> development stopped in 2005.
What part of Usenet has changed since 2005? ;-)
Dialog may seem complicated to you due to its power. I've not needed
any documentation; the menus and settings dialogs seem fairly
self-explanatory, and a run-through should suffice.
I suppose I should add a "YMMV".
--
-bts
-Four wheels carry the body; two wheels move the soul
Posted by J. Clarke on April 17, 2011, 11:39 am
says...
>
> J. Clarke wrote:
>
> > Someone is probably going to suggest 40tude Dialog. It works and is
> > very powerful but it's also quite complicated, poorly documented, and
> > development stopped in 2005.
>
> What part of Usenet has changed since 2005? ;-)
USENET is not the issue. Windows is the issue. Windows has gone
through two major upgrades since 2005 and each broke many applications
that had run on the previous version. Eventually Windows will break
Dialog and since it seems to be abandonware the users will then have to
find an alternative. So why start out with abandonware?
> Dialog may seem complicated to you due to its power. I've not needed
> any documentation; the menus and settings dialogs seem fairly
> self-explanatory, and a run-through should suffice.
If you just want to read news, yes, however if that's all you want then
why use complicated abandonware? If you want to actually USE all that
fancy crap they put in it it's another story.
> I suppose I should add a "YMMV".
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> Windows Mail or similar.
>
> Windows Live Mail (now downloadable, but not quite the same product)
> seems somewhat dysfunctional as a newsgroup reader.
>
> Any recommendations?
>
> Thanks, Dave A.