news.software.readers

badgolferman wrote:

>guest, 8/6/2007,10:37:02 PM, wrote:
>
>> badgolferman wrote:
>>
>What kind of problems are you having?

See my post above. It's very raw and buggy.

>I did finally get the settings to work in the xml
>file

me too - with lots of crushes and freezes

>but haven't yet figured out how to make it connect through my
>work proxy.

Oh, that I can help you with - I'm running portable Xananews through
proxy myself.

First, it HAS to be SOCKS proxy. You cannot run a newsreader through an
HHTP proxy. If your work proxy is HTTP, you'd have to tunnel Xananews
with a program like HHTPport.

If your work proxy is Socks, it's simple:

Get a program called Proxifier (portable edition) from here:
/file/x5yrwx

Then just configure your work's socks proxy in there to be used with
Xananews. That's it.

>Another option for you that works is Thunderbird portable but it sucks
>as a newsreader, just not as bad as Google Groups.

I tried thunderbird... I'd rather put up with Xana's crushes and bugs.

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The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is the day they
start making vacuum cleaners...