Off-topic: Newsgroup retention

Hi,


I know this is not really on-topic here but since this is one of the most
frequented ng's I use, I thought I might ask it here.

At the moment I am using OE6 to read the ng's. I have quite a few topics
marked that I find very interesting, even if I haven't participated in them,
just nice to know some stuff some people have experienced.
The topics I have marked are apparantly disappearing from the server one by
one. I started saving them to disk, but it's a bit tediuos and I would like
to know what othere people here do to save interesting topics, just for
future reference.


David

 

This is a long-standing "feature" of OE. If the messages drop off the
server, OE will drop them too.

You can copy them to another folder, or switch to a real newsreader.

There are lots of newsreaders out there, many free, and the one that I
like (which happens to look quite similar to OE) is called XanaNews, and
is available from http://www.wilsonc.demon.co.uk/delphi.htm.

Some others are:

* Forte Agent
* Thunderbird
* MicroPlanet Gravity
* Opera

 

Free Agent or Agent. Save all you want. Since I have saved a copy of
the post it is there forever or until the workstation dies. I end up
deleting stuff as I can never find the article I thought I saved. I
either google for the article or ask one of my friends.

Jim B. SBS MVP
I don't have much to say but it can be found here
http://msmvps.com/bgb/

 

Although I'm using Thunderbird at the moment, I actually think that OE
is often unfairly maligned and has many advantages. Although
Thunderbird can read *some* yenc files on some of the binary groups I
frequent, it won't do multi-part binaries and the filtering/killfiling
doesn't seem to work properly. Also, if you've viewed a picture in the
preview pane, and double-click to see it in its own window, it seems to
pointlessly download the picture again. The best thing about
Thunderbird, though, is its ability to handle RSS feeds. I reckon if OE
had RSS (and maybe atom) support, and could view yenc-encoded files, it
would be perfect. Add RSS enclosure support (podcasting), and you've
got a killer app.

 

OK, so does anybody know a newsreader/mail client that has *all* the
following:

smtp/pop3/imap4 email
usenet newsgroups
RSS/atom
RSS enclosures (podcasts)
yenc support
multi-part binaries
good, simple-to-use-but-powerful killfiling, *not* just based on sender
address (to cope with morphing)
can be used with Spampal
makes the tea
washes up

 

Way cool suggestion. I downloaded and installed XanaNews reader and
really like the features and interface. Thanks for the suggestions!