J. Clarke wrote:

On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 06:36:24 -0800, Renata0403 wrote:

On Jan 10, 11:32 am, wrote:
Doug Miller wrote:
In article
.com, "jtpr"
wrote:

Funny, I used Agent (the pay one) for years. After going to
Google I can't see how I put up with Agent.

I'm completely the opposite. To each his own.

For one, google doesn't distinguish if a thread has been added to
(w/new replies). If I've accessed a thread, it shows on the list
in a different color (as w/any website) and there seems to be no
distinction if new stuff has been added (such as this thread).
Pain in the keester.

Well, my bottom line is that Verizon has realized the error of their
ways - not in my favor. They fixed their server so that non-Verizon
IPs cannot access their services and I'm gonna have to subscribe to
newsguy to access news from anywhere but home. Just debating if I
want to wait another couple weeks for my credit card to roll over.

While newsguy works (been using it for years),
http://www.teranews.com/ has a free service and
http://news.individual.net/ is very inexpensive. Might want to try
one of those.

Renata



To each his own, I guess. Having used NewsXpress, I can't
imagine how anybody puts up with Google.Well I might try that,
as I prefer Google to Agent.



Everything is just so much easier
to do, and I can do it from anywhere.

You have a curious definition of "everything", because, as you
note below, you can't access binary groups _at_all_ through
Google.

Your definition of "everything" doesn't appear to include
killfiles and filters, either.I agree that Google badly needs a
killfile feature. It is the only
serious
newsreader feature that I miss.

It doesn't have a .sig feature either, but probably on balance,
that's a good thing.



Quite true -- one reason I don't use Google Groups except to
look up something in the past. It's a fine archive, but for
reading current posts, it sucks. ...With Google I can do an ego
search to see who has replied to
my articles and when reading a thread I can sort by date to see if
there are any new additions. Google also follows threads across
newsgroups.

With Google, the troll attacks in rec.woowdorking haven't been a
problem.
The dipfloods (DOS attacks) on news.admin.net-abuse.email were for
a while but I think Google may have learned to kill those as
recently I have read about there being new attacks but have seen
neither hide nor hair of them.

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FF

I'm using XanaNews (reader) and Aioe (server with something like 60K
groups) both free. My primary server is Earthlink. Jim

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