OT: News readers

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Yes I can confirm you can (and I do) access Newgroups via MS Outlook.(View-> Goto -> News) you will have to configure your News Server of course.

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I prefer Thunderbird for newsgroups and Firefox as a web browser, both have useful features compared to the MS equivalents; available free at:

=46orte Agent suits me fine.

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Ditto, and Opera for a browser.

Note that the 'paid-for' Agent is far better on features than the freebie one, which is what you'd expect, but still find folks complaining about it not having this and that...

Peter

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There is no question that using a newsreader (even Outlook Express) i

preferable to a web interface. I still don't know which NNTP server t point my newsreader at to find this forum. It seems that USENET are possiblity but they seem to require a subsctiption. I know tha newsgroups are often mirrored on multiple server with feeds coming fro different places including Google and RCGroups web sites. Any othe suggestions NNTP server mirrors?

Archi

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You don't point anywhere, the newsreader will automatically load the list of newsgroups when you first start, and then you select which ones you 'subscribe' to, although there is no subscription per se.

Usenet is a free access organisation, you pay nothing for the access.

Peter

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You need access to a news server though. Most ISP deals (except AOL) include this. Ask your ISP.

There are also a few commercial news servers. I don't have a list or anything, sorry. They tend to charge about a fiver a month, which is ridiculous - should be about a fiver a year for the average user.

There may even be some free ones, there used to be a few, but they tend to be limited - few groups, and no posting - and were becoming uncommon when last I looked (some years ago).

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Problem solved.

I didn't realise that my own ISP (Blueyonder) linked to this group. I have been using my newreader and had set up accounts to access private groups, hence the question on where to point the newsreader. All that was required is to set up another account to the Blueyonder server. Easy when you know how.

Archie

Have a read through some of these:

Too cold to go down to the garage this morning!

Bill H Derby

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Just as the Trojans were warned to beware of Greeks bearing gifts so should one beware sites offering free spy-ware hunting software. Most spy-ware operates Trojan Horse style.

Sorry if I sent you off looking at the Spyware link instead of the Newsgroups one. I've tried Ad-Aware and SpyBot - they're standard recommendations in conjunction with a virus checker.

Another page on Newsgroups here: