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From: Grant on 16 Jun 2010 18:02
On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 07:35:01 -0700, Fred Abse <excretatauris(a)invalid.invalid> wrote:

>On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 07:21:50 +1000, Grant wrote:
>
>> NNTP seems to be the poor cousin for getting clients. I haven't found a
>> Linux client worth changing to yet.
>
>Have you tried Pan?

Pan's a poor workalike of Agent from way back, can't stand it ;)

I'll probably run Agent in a VM'd windoze, down the track. Maybe something
will turn up. There's other reasons to stay with win for now. Agent is
only shareware I paid for, back in '96 and a couple more times to stay
current. Good value. I don't do binaries, but Agent is also good for
large email lists like lkml -- treats them somewhat like news groups.

Grant.
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From: Phil Hobbs on 16 Jun 2010 19:39
On 6/16/2010 1:23 PM, John Larkin wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 23:20:19 -0400, Phil Hobbs
> <pcdhSpamMeSenseless(a)electrooptical.net> wrote:
>
>> Michael A. Terrell wrote:
>>> Phil Hobbs wrote:
>>>> Michael A. Terrell wrote:
>>>>> JosephKK wrote:
>>>>>> On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 02:46:36 -0400, "Michael A. Terrell"
>>>>>> <mike.terrell(a)earthlink.net> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> JosephKK wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Fri, 11 Jun 2010 19:01:23 -0400, Hammy<spam(a)spam.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Fri, 11 Jun 2010 18:27:59 -0400, Hammy<spam(a)spam.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> For the record I do have JRE installed and it still doesn't work with
>>>>>>>>> FF, it does work with IE.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> They do recommend using either IE or Netscape for the tool. The site
>>>>>>>>> does however claim to be compatible with FF.
>>>>>>>> Geez, Netscape "died" many years ago. What is in their heads?
>>>>>>> It did? Then I've not posted anything in many years.
>>>>>> And i am replying to an imaginary post.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It is not so much that people don't keep it running, but that there has
>>>>>> been no support for years (other than switching to seamonkey or perhaps
>>>>>> firefox& thunderbird).
>>>>>
>>>>> I have both Firefox and Seamonkey running right now. The only
>>>>> problem with the old Netscape is that it chokes on today's bloated web
>>>>> pages.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> The mailer in NS 4.75 is a lot more reliable than Seamonkey or
>>>> Thunderbird, at least for NNTP.
>>>
>>>
>>> I've tried several different NNTP programs and always went back to
>>> Netscape. This is the 4.8 version which I think was the last version
>>> released. I was in a hurry when I moved to a different computer. I was
>>> using the 4.76 for Windows 95 that I first installed years ago. This
>>> time I just installed the software and created the user name I had on
>>> the last computer, then overwrote all of the data files. It saved me a
>>> couple hours, but I guess it was time for the slight change. The only
>>> other NNTP program I use is Xnews to download the multipart files on
>>> ABSE and ABPR newsgroups.
>>>
>>> Don't take this the wrong way, but when I see your full name with the
>>> 'C', I think of Calvin& Hobbs. :)
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I don't mind at all--having my name remind people of one of the cultural
>> highlights of the late 20th Century is all to the good.
>>
>> Actually, the stripy guy is Hobbes with an 'e', as in Thomas Hobbes the
>> philosopher. TH was the guy who thought that natural man lived by the
>> law of the jungle. His most famous quote is that "the life of man [in a
>> state of nature] is solitary, nasty, brutish, and short."
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Phil Hobbs
>>
>> [gregarious, pleasant, civilized, and tall, among other things] ;)
>>
>
>
> But I'm far more fuel efficient.
>
> John
>
>

Try drinking a gallon of gas and see how far you go. ;)

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

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