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Posted by Blinky the Shark on 12/31/05 21:44
Jose wrote:
>> I don't know why anyone would bother exhuming ancient software like
>> that.
>
> to run on an ancient machine?
I don't dabble in that. But you're running Win98 -- anything that can run
even Win98 can run one of plenty of current news clients.
>> That's the second time you've said that an email/newsgroup appplication
>> is needed.
>
> I'm not aware of any news-only client. I thought the protocols were so
> similar that to do one and not do the other would be silly. I agree
> that bolting it onto a browser and IM client is not necessary.
Xnews is one of the most popular in the Windows world. It will copy
newsgroup reply to en email address, and you can send a reply email
instead of a newsgroup reply, but there's no POP; i.e., you can't download
mail (because it's, well, a news client). That's a common setup with
stand-alone news clients. I think Agent is the same. Pan certainly is.
Dialog is. There are others. If you're interested, check in at
news.software.readers, a good and knowledgeable group. See you there,
perhaps.
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