Re: Modern Replacement for Xnews?

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From: wereoawl
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 16:33

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"Phil Philanderer" <phil-philanderer@yer.seester.and.yer.mama.now> wrote in 
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> Is there a modern replacement for the now obsoleting Xnews?
>
> It uses too much memories to load up some groups and takes forever to get 
> the
> remaining message counts while whiting-out and lagging my downloads as 
> well
> as slowing down the response times on some of my online games while I'm
> watching several news feeds and the Olympics...  b   u   f   f   e   r 
> i
> n      g...  And I've got a really fast cable connection on a very fast
> network with some high-powered computers which are so fast they usually 
> leave
> a blur - in fact they're sooooooooo fassssssssssst that when I logoff I 
> look
> years younger than when I logged on!
>
> And then there's Xnews...  Whew!  I'm needed the latest, greatest upgrade.
>
> I'd prefer one that plays the mp3s in stereo on my computer because what's
> the sense of having an expensive sound system if you can only play them in
> mono and they show any pictures either?
>
> So, Xnews was sure a good one in its day, but like like those guys the
> president of the USA hangs ribbons on every year, while it has a place in
> history now, its sure not keeping up with the times!
>
> TIA.

Very good, thank you. Good luck.

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From: "wereoawl" <caljamscott@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: Modern Replacement for Xnews?
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