Re: Good Windows newsreader?

Pete Stephenson wrote:
> Anyone have any idea for a good Windows newsreader? I presently use
> MT-NewsWatcher on the Mac, and am wondering what good ones exist for
> Windows.
>
> It'd be preferable if it were free, of course.

That's a little like asking the owners of various operating systems
which is the best.  Newsreader choice is a very personal matter and it
also depends on what you are going to be doing with it.

The best place to rap about it and also to run into people who could
compare some particular Win newsreader with Mac's MT-NewsWatcher is in
the group news.software.readers

A lot of the people in there have messed with a lot of newsreaders, Win,
/n/x, and Mac.  And Solaris.  And others.  I frequently defend the usage
of OE + OE Quote-Fix for those who have mastered it as 'OE wranglers'.
Not for the faint of heart, of course.

And not without all kinds of aids and 3rd party addons like Nfilter for
news message filtering, OE QF for regular newsing, YProxy if you are
doing any binary downloads which OE can't yDecode natively, and SpamPal
as a proxy for its deficiency in handling spam unaided.

-- 
Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin