Newsgroups Question

[ChrisK2972]

Does anyone know of a good site that explains the "How To's" of using newsgoups? Also, what is the best newsgroup program? I use Outlook XP as my email client, but, someone told me that Outlook does not do very well with newsgroups (missing or imcomplete messages).

http://www.walthowe.com/navnet/faq/newsq.html

http://youonline.net/freebies/freerpts/010.htm

little help there



i use a program called grabit

http://www.shemes.com/

works well

[S.D.Willie]

thanks j, i use outlook express because it looks the best as far as rendering goes, but sucks for most other reasons. i will def give grab it a go.

SD

[hav0c]

Check out a program called Free Agent, www.forteinc.com

Also incomplete message are usually caused by the News server not the news client.

[vass0922]

I also use grabit, works great!
The only thing I dont like it for is it doesn't read messages.. it just downloads them as text files (unless there is something I dont know) but for downloading multipart files it works great! .. I didn't like Forte much. The Opera news client isn't all that bad for reading messages, but haven't tried it for anything else yet and its gotta be better than using outlook express, newsgroups are FAR too dangerous to be using that insecure POS. (depending on the newsgroups you read obviously, but even the good ones if unmoderated can get a bad post)

[ChrisK2972]

Thanks all for the information. Sounds like Grabit is the program to use. One more question. Do you use a free News server or a Premium service? If free, what is the best one out there?

ChrisK