Tim Carter wrote in
:

I have been using Outlook as my Usenet news reader for quite some time
now. For the most part, I like it...it sure beat the Unix interface I
used in college some 13 years ago. But I just downloaded XNews from
www.download.com. It has some rather decent features and it's free.
For the most part, it blows away Outlook, though I find Outlook's
watching and flagging capabilities are a bit more to my liking.

The biggest surprise, however, is that for some reason I now have
access to alt.binaries.pictures.fishing. I know it's been discussed
here before and that there are a number of folks here that can't get
to it...maybe it's all in the reader (though I wonder if there's a
parameter in Outlook that can be switched to get the access...?).

You'd be surprised about how well xnews flagging works onece you start
using it.

Scott