Best newsreader?

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#59

Author: Nails
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 00:00

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Anyone have any recommendations on a good newsreader.

I'm looking for the following features:

- HTML compatible
- Can flag messages to easily find them again
- Can search through both message headers and bodies
- Easily search through news group list to find the group you want (keyword
search)

Thanks!

Steve Bartlett
sabnails@gte.net

Re: Best newsreader?

#60

Author: Scott Norwood
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 00:00

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In article <6alkdh$k2s$1@gte1.gte.net>, Nails <sabnails@gte.com> wrote:
>Anyone have any recommendations on a good newsreader.
>
>I'm looking for the following features:
>
>- HTML compatible
   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
That's not a "feature"; it's a bug, despite what the NS and M$ folks
may have you belive....

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Re: Best newsreader?

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Author: Sebastian
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 00:00

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Hi!

"Nails" <sabnails@gte.com> wrote in de.comm.software.newsreader:

> Anyone have any recommendations on a good newsreader.

I recommend Forte Agent. It is very good and inexpensive. However, it starts
an external viewer for HTML-Code (but HTML-Code isn't wanted in the USENET
anyway, only beginners use it because of Microsoft and Co.). You can
download a freeware version with less features for free at
http://www.forteinc.com . However, I recommend the full version, because the
free version does not know character encoding for 8-Bit characters.

Sebastian

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Re: Best newsreader?

#62

Author: Jon Bell
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 00:00

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In article <6alkdh$k2s$1@gte1.gte.net>, Nails <sabnails@gte.com> wrote:
>Anyone have any recommendations on a good newsreader.
>
>I'm looking for the following features:
[snip]

You forgot to mention one minor thing:  the platform you want it to run 
on.  Character-based Unix?  X Windows?  Macintosh?  DOS?  OS/2?  Windows 
NT?  or, uh... mumble... :-)

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