Re: Looking for USENET client recommendations for Windows

On 1/13/2025 10:04 PM, Mike Van Pelt wrote:

In article <vm3kpd$1vknb$1@dont-email.me>,
Bice Eichler  <eichler2@comcast.net> wrote:

What I'm looking for is newsgroup reader software that:
- runs in Windows
- works with Eternal-September's server
- can handle large unread message counts
- can offload unread messages to a single text file
>
That last one is key. I used to download unread messages and use Agent's
Save to File feature and it would make one nice big text file with a

 I do old-school -- trn 4.1.  I'm running it right now in
"Windows Subsystem for Linux" in a bash shell on a Windows
machine, so it "runs on Windows" for certain definitions of
the term.
 Works with Eternal-September's server, obviously, that's how
I'm posting this.
 I've never run into any issue with large message counts.
 I'd never tried offloading messages to a single text file,
but I just tried it out.  Mark the messages you want to save
to the file, then :w <file name>.
 It's a threaded newsreader (though you can turn off the
threading if you want) and it has The Most Powerful
Kill File feature of any Usenet reader in existence.
(If there are any better ones, I've never encountered
them.)  It's fast to kill messages by from or subject,
a bit slower to kill by anything in the content of the
message or headers.  I've used this on the sci.astro
group to kill any message crossposted to the flat
earth group, and back when miscreants were maliciously
crossposting spam to many groups, I could kill messages
crossposted to three or more groups.

Out of curiosity, I build trn from source a few years ago.
Took a little effort but it worked fine.
pt