Re: Looking for USENET client recommendations for Windows

On 1/13/2025 9:12 PM, Titus G wrote:

On 14/01/25 09:50, Cryptoengineer wrote:

On 1/13/2025 2:28 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

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Thunderbird on Windows 11 Pro is what I use.

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I'm also usng thunderbird. I am not impressed.
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 I have used Thunderbird (on Linux), for ever so I don't know what I am
missing or what is wrong with it and am curious regarding additional
features you would require to be impressed. Thank you.

For the longest time I used the Google groups interface, which
sucked, but had very high availability. I also used xnews, but
that no longer seems to run.
A good deal of it is probably my unfamiliarity. I haven't really
figured ou the options for retaining and disposing of read messages,
which means that threads I'm caught up on simply vanish.
The other factor is the lack of a decent kill file. rn (where
I started back in the 80s, and its descendants allow you to
select messages and threads using regular expressions on all
headers and content, and then perform actions based on the
contents. This is very powerful, and much missed. For example,
you could eliminate posts crossposted to more then two groups
by selecting messages where the Newsgroups header line had
more than one comma.
pt