What's the best (free) newsreader?
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Christopher Duncan wrote:
you'll find a lot of free servers. You don't have to go through your ISP
I started to a while ago, and somewhere along the way I found CP and haven’t looked elsewhere since. I just may have to get my act together and start looking again, if for nothing less to remember why this is such a great place…
I'd love to help, but unfortunatley I have prior commitments monitoring the length of my grass. :Andrew Bleakley:
Well, as it turns out, I didn't know what I was talking about. (Alert the media!) Most of the "free" usenet server lists are a collection of private servers that sys admins forgot to secure, etc. rather than legitimately free services. A lot of them also appear to be big on binaries, i.e. repositories for copyright violations. Not my speed. I may check into what commercial usenet services cost. Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes
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Well, as it turns out, I didn't know what I was talking about. (Alert the media!) Most of the "free" usenet server lists are a collection of private servers that sys admins forgot to secure, etc. rather than legitimately free services. A lot of them also appear to be big on binaries, i.e. repositories for copyright violations. Not my speed. I may check into what commercial usenet services cost. Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes
Christopher Duncan wrote:
Most of the "free" usenet server lists are a collection of private servers that sys admins forgot to secure, etc. rather than legitimately free services. A lot of them also appear to be big on binaries, i.e. repositories for copyright violations. Not my speed.
Having used them in the past, you can add bad retention, massively missing posts, and short halflife to thier common list of flaws.
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Try XNews[^] It's not too bad.
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Bad Astronomy |Development Blogging|Viksoe.dk's SiteI'm suprised no one has posted Forte Agent..http://www.forteinc.com/main/homepage.php[^] -== The PogoWolf ==- "The Devil is a loser, and he's my bitch" - Mr. Lordi http://www.pogowolf.com GamersVue: ttp://GamersVue.blogger.com
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Well, as it turns out, I didn't know what I was talking about. (Alert the media!) Most of the "free" usenet server lists are a collection of private servers that sys admins forgot to secure, etc. rather than legitimately free services. A lot of them also appear to be big on binaries, i.e. repositories for copyright violations. Not my speed. I may check into what commercial usenet services cost. Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes
Christopher Duncan wrote:
Most of the "free" usenet server lists are a collection of private servers that sys admins forgot to secure, etc. rather than legitimately free services. A lot of them also appear to be big on binaries, i.e. repositories for copyright violations. Not my speed.
Yea, I would have to agree, definitely not my cup of tea. At one point I know Microsoft offered free Usenet server access. But I don’t know where that stands any more.
Christopher Duncan wrote:
I may check into what commercial usenet services cost.
If you find anything decent (and cheap) let me know, I just might have to check it out.
I'd love to help, but unfortunatley I have prior commitments monitoring the length of my grass. :Andrew Bleakley:
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Daniel Desormeaux wrote:
I end up defragging the partition containing the OE cache weekly.
As memory serves I set it up to only cache about a week, the VC++ group was never that busy. So OE worked just fine for my needs.
Daniel Desormeaux wrote:
I use OE for text-based newsgroups, despite it being slow as hell trying to manage newsgroups with posts in the tens of thousands.
Wow, what newsgroup do you frequent that gets that much activity?
I'd love to help, but unfortunatley I have prior commitments monitoring the length of my grass. :Andrew Bleakley:
S Douglas wrote:
Wow, what newsgroup do you frequent that gets that much activity?
In my case it's more packratitis than anything else. Some of the groups on baen's bar (SF publishers webboard with nntp access, bar.baen.com) range from 100-400 posts/day, and manually sorting out what I need from what I can junk is too much effort when a decent search is available.
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I'm speaking of a reader for usenet groups rather than RSS feeds... I see that Opera has a built in reader, just wondering if there was anything better on the free scene, or if there's a clear consensus on what the leading apps are for this use. Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes Know someone who desperately needs to get a clue? Visit www.DownloadAClue.com and send them one!
googlegroups lets you read and post to most of em.
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I'm suprised no one has posted Forte Agent..http://www.forteinc.com/main/homepage.php[^] -== The PogoWolf ==- "The Devil is a loser, and he's my bitch" - Mr. Lordi http://www.pogowolf.com GamersVue: ttp://GamersVue.blogger.com
Forte is excellent, but I'm not partial to their free version, since it's lacking filters.
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I'm speaking of a reader for usenet groups rather than RSS feeds... I see that Opera has a built in reader, just wondering if there was anything better on the free scene, or if there's a clear consensus on what the leading apps are for this use. Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes Know someone who desperately needs to get a clue? Visit www.DownloadAClue.com and send them one!
Check out the free version of OMEA by Jetbrains software. I have the full version and man! It's the goods!!!
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Forte is excellent, but I'm not partial to their free version, since it's lacking filters.
:..::. Douglas H. Troy ::..
Bad Astronomy |Development Blogging|Viksoe.dk's SiteWhat do the filters do for you? Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes
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I'm speaking of a reader for usenet groups rather than RSS feeds... I see that Opera has a built in reader, just wondering if there was anything better on the free scene, or if there's a clear consensus on what the leading apps are for this use. Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes Know someone who desperately needs to get a clue? Visit www.DownloadAClue.com and send them one!
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What do the filters do for you? Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes
You can filter out spammers, certain threads, cross posts, etc ...
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Daniel Desormeaux wrote:
I end up defragging the partition containing the OE cache weekly.
As memory serves I set it up to only cache about a week, the VC++ group was never that busy. So OE worked just fine for my needs.
Daniel Desormeaux wrote:
I use OE for text-based newsgroups, despite it being slow as hell trying to manage newsgroups with posts in the tens of thousands.
Wow, what newsgroup do you frequent that gets that much activity?
I'd love to help, but unfortunatley I have prior commitments monitoring the length of my grass. :Andrew Bleakley:
> > I use OE for text-based newsgroups, despite it being slow as hell trying to manage newsgroups > > with posts in the tens of thousands. > > Wow, what newsgroup do you frequent that gets that much activity? For one, alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia. Lately I'm a little curious about some of Nvidia's newest cards, so I'm trying to gather a little "real world" information from actual users. As I'm writing this, OE shows there are 71,344 messages. I certainly don't care about keeping a huge group history (that's what Google Groups is for), but just clicking on the newsgroup to download the newest headers takes forever--not getting the new headers, mind you, but just having OE re-reading the local/cached file containing the previous 70K+ headers. That's where, IMO, OE breaks down...you can't quickly jump from group to the next, which is exactly how it would be most useful...
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I'm speaking of a reader for usenet groups rather than RSS feeds... I see that Opera has a built in reader, just wondering if there was anything better on the free scene, or if there's a clear consensus on what the leading apps are for this use. Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes Know someone who desperately needs to get a clue? Visit www.DownloadAClue.com and send them one!