On Tue, 21 Nov 2006 21:10:44 -0000, "Roger R"
wrote:

"Dave Fawthrop" wrote in message
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On Tue, 21 Nov 2006 18:50:07 GMT, "The Medway Handyman"
wrote:

|Hi
|
|I keep missing the OP in a thread and some complete threads - although I
can
|see them online.

Use news.individual.net at a near 10 Euros per year. Text only
|
|I'm using OE6 - would that be it? Would I be better off using Firefox to
|read NG's?

No IME you would be better off using Agent.

I disagree.

Switch to Agent is the usual tune on Usenet, and I tried Free Agent for
while but found, amongst other things, that it did not display the posts as
I would like.

It displays text, in any font you want, fixed or proportional spacing,
and it quotes properly. What more do you want for a text based
messaging service?

The various configurations I desired were only available in
the paid for version. It was as though they designed quite a good
application called Agent and then turned every setting back to front and
gave that away as the free version as a come on.

And the paid for version is not a one off purchase, it's an annual
subscription.

No it's not, you pay a measly few dollars ($29 or 15 quid) for a
licence to use the version that is currently available. I'm using
version 2 from about 2 or 3 years ago, but version 1.5 from about 10
years ago would still offer 95% of the functionality of version 2
needed for non binary groups.

If you are really cheap then get a keygen if it makes you feel any
better.

So I'm back with OE 6. Free.

Which also happens to be the choice of Dr Dribble. If Microsoft did
plumbing it would be push fit on plastic pipes cut with a junior
hacksaw.

Microsoft have had years and probably a billion dollars to try and
perfect an email and news client with passable usability. Not even
understanding the requirements has meant they failed, miserably.

Their browser is a pile of stinking crap as well, always was, always
will be. The *only* thing that I could possibly think that microsoft
has got right is individual bookmark files per url, something that
Firefox and all other Mozilla/Netscape derived products have sadly
failed to adopt.




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