NewReader

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...?).

The biggest surprise, however, is that for some reason I now have access
to alt.binaries.pictures.fishing.

Lot more binaries out there than fission ones, or so Uncle Wally told me.

--
Frank Reid
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"Tim Carter" wrote in message
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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...?).

And you haven't changed your ISP or News service? I kow that I can't post to
ABPF through the german access I use, but I can read it through DejaNews.

--riverman

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...?).

And you haven't changed your ISP or News service? I kow that I can't
post to ABPF through the german access I use, but I can read it
through DejaNews.

Nope, no other changes. I haven't tried posting to it, though.

Tim Carter wrote in
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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