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Percival P. Cassidy

On 07/03/11 04:46 pm, zzzzzzzzzz wrote:

Straight question.

What is the purpose of paying for a newsreader?

There are many free newsreaders out there. Agent is the only one I know of
that isn't free.

Thunderbird (email and news) or SeaMonkey (email, news and browser) both
from Mozilla, are free.

Is it to access news groups?

Umm...

For that purpose, is Google really so awful?

Yes.

Esp, for people who visit only a few NGs?

Yes, but you're talking about two different things.

newsreader news (NNTP) server

(Note: I had one of the BEST email clients for years -- Forte Agent.

Agent isn't an email client, though it will do that too. I don't particularly
like it for email, though I use it for news.

Swift, powerful, sophisticated.
But when they discontinued NG access, I went to a Web-based email
client.

Why would you *ever* use web email? Gack!

Hear! Hear! I am a member of dozens of Yahoo! groups but always have
messages as individual emails to my computer, where Thunderbird filters
them into folders depending on the criteria I set.

My ISP dropped newsgroups, but I can still get most of them _via_
eternal-september.org, which is free. news.individual.net retains
messages longer and costs the vast sum of 10 Euros/year -- about US$14
right now.

I have separate folders for each newsgroup.

Perce