Re: Newsgroup
From: dkomo (dkomo871_at_comcast.net)
Date: 01/29/05
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Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 13:59:45 -0500 (EST)
Phil Roberts, Jr. wrote:
> Wirt Atmar wrote:
>
>>Bill wrote, following me:
>>
>>
>>
>>>>I'm now using the newsgroup functions intrinsic to Outlook Express
>>>>while subscribed to a free newsgroup server that allows both reading
>>>>and posting capabilities. The server's name (which is just an IP
>>>>address) is:
>>>>
>>>> 213.155.197.138
>>>>
>>>>The Outlook Express reader functions are done significantly
>>>>differently than were AOL's, but they seem like something that I can
>>>>get used to with a little patience.
>>>
>>>If you find you don't like Outlook Express as a newsreader, you might try
>>>Xnews. It is a freeware program that I have been using for some time now.
>>
>>
>>While this is a little off-topic for the subject of the group, let me
>>finish up with the subject. Since my first response, I've spent the last
>>two days playing with various newsreaders and newsservers. I've gotten
>>to be very pleased with the standalone newsreader program that downloads
>>with Netscape 7.x and the free news feed referenced above.
>>
>>The Netscape newsreader program does everything that I want it to do and
>>better than any of the other newsreader programs that I investigated.
>>Moreover, the program is quite intuitive. So intuitive in fact that it
>>took me half a day to figure it out :-).
>>
>
>
> I've used Netscape and its newsreader for over a decade now, and one of
> the benefits is that its based on Mozilla, an open source program which
> many very smart programmers have collectively worked on over the years.
> The result is that, at least according to my computer geek friend, it
> is far more immune to viruses and the like than Microsoft programs.
>
> PR
>
Ditto that. I've used Netscape's newsreader almost exclusively since I
first got on the Internet back in 1994. I've never found a better
newsreader. Combined with Comcast's high speed Internet and its free
subscription to Giganews, I have state of the art access to Usenet,
IMHO. Giganews carries all the newgroups and archives posts for at least
6 months. It is always up, and most posts to a non-moderated group
appear on the group within minutes. I have never lost a post.
I caught a major adware infection this week surfing the Web with
Internet Explorer. That program is a piece of crap in terms of Internet
security. It allows "drive-by installs" of some very noxious malware.
If you are unlucky enough to surf to an unfriendly web site, your
computer is infected in a matter of seconds before you can even react.
As I clean up my computer, I've continued to web surf using the Netscape
browser and bypassing the installed adware.
--dkomo@cris.com
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