From: Tom Shelton on 5 Feb 2010 10:43 On 2010-02-05, Karl E Peterson <karl(a)exmvps.org> wrote: > Tom Shelton wrote: >> On 2010-02-04, Karl E Peterson <karl(a)exmvps.org> wrote: >>> GS wrote: >>>> How can I get the NNTP for this newsgroup? >>> >>> Depends what client you're using. Outlook Express (OE) is sort of the >>> fallback standard, if it's available. Last supported version came with >>> XP. Vista had WinMail, which (so I'm told) sucked far worse than OE. >>> And Win7 doesn't even offer that by default. I use MesNews in Win7, >>> myself, which is free and very portable as it's written with Delphi. >>> There are many others, as well, and the discussion can get very >>> religious (almost like programming languages) if it gets going. So, >>> pick yer poison, then connect to the server (msnews.microsoft.com) and >>> subscribe to this group. >>> >> >> slrn + console mode vim + powershell.... Now that's a newsreader. > > Evangelist! ;-P > How can you argue with this: http://www.tom-shelton.net/files/slrn.png :) -- Tom Shelton
From: Schmidt on 5 Feb 2010 11:12 "Tom Shelton" <tom_shelton(a)comcastXXXXXXX.net> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:eqhTBonpKHA.5328(a)TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > > Evangelist! ;-P > > > > How can you argue with this: > > http://www.tom-shelton.net/files/slrn.png Hehe, real men use telnet for that... www.datenhaus.de/Downloads/telnet-nntp.png <g> Olaf
From: Tom Shelton on 5 Feb 2010 11:48 On 2010-02-05, Schmidt <sss(a)online.de> wrote: > > "Tom Shelton" <tom_shelton(a)comcastXXXXXXX.net> schrieb im Newsbeitrag > news:eqhTBonpKHA.5328(a)TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > >> > Evangelist! ;-P >> > >> >> How can you argue with this: >> >> http://www.tom-shelton.net/files/slrn.png > > Hehe, real men use telnet for that... > www.datenhaus.de/Downloads/telnet-nntp.png LOL... classic! -- Tom Shelton
From: Nobody on 5 Feb 2010 13:41 > Thanks Karl and Bob. This reply is from the news group I just added to OE. > Wow! -nice way to work this... > > Thanks so much! > Garry You need to edit your email to avoid SPAM. It doesn't matter if it's correct or not.
From: GS on 5 Feb 2010 13:52
Nobody expressed precisely : >> Thanks Karl and Bob. This reply is from the news group I just added to OE. >> Wow! -nice way to work this... >> >> Thanks so much! >> Garry > > You need to edit your email to avoid SPAM. It doesn't matter if it's correct > or not. Thanks! Can you elaborate...? |