news.software.readers

Peter J Ross wrote:
> In on 25 Sep 2007 00:48:38 GMT, Blinky the Shark
>< @ > wrote:
>
>> Stan Brown wrote:
>>> 24 Sep 2007 12:37:08 GMT from Peter J Ross :
>>>> But was the last official release, and the last completely
>>>> functional release. never got much testing so might be full of
>>>> bugs.
>>>
>>> It's pretty much the same code base, with a cruddy spell checker
>>> substituted for the really excellent one in earlier versions. There's
>>> also support for yenc (decode only) and X-faces.
>>>
>>> The biggie is that wouldn't work for me under Win XP, and
>>> does.
>>>
>>> I tried Forte Agent, even paying for it. What a piece of crap that
>>> was!
>>>
>>> I'm open to suggestions for Windows newsreaders, largely because of
>>> this filtering issue.
>>
>> There is one. Xnews.
>
> There are two. The other one is Dialog.

I've spent a pretty fair amount of time with Dialog and lots of time
with Xnews. Thus was formed my personal opinion of what I'll recommend
for Windows.


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