Higgs Boson wrote:
Straight question.

What is the purpose of paying for a newsreader? Is it to access news
groups? For that purpose, is Google really so awful? Esp, for
people who visit only a few NGs?

(Note: I had one of the BEST email clients for years -- Forte Agent.
Swift, powerful, sophisticated.
But when they discontinued NG access, I went to a Web-based email
client. I guess I could still use Agent just for email, but now I'm
sot in me ways.

Or do people pay for a newsreader to follow the news, period. If the
latter, why not just go to news sources on-line?

Have been puzzling about this for some time.

Enlightenment, anyone?

HB
HB

I use Thunderbird, Version 2.0.0.24 or something like that. I don't
care for the Ver 3x, to many bells and whistles.
My ISP has newsgroups included but they were having problems and got
so slow that I eventually went to http://www.aioe.org/ it's free, it's
fast, it has some limits that I've never exceeded. Text only...
And that's how I do it......