Newsreder recommendations

[Norman Lynagh]

Good evening all,

As you are probably aware, I haven'posted much on here during March and April.
The problem is that my newsreader has decided to go belly-up after 20-or so
years of faithful service. Nothing I can do will make it work. I have cobbled
together something that lets me read the posts and I have managed to get this
post together (at least I think I have), None of it is at all fully functional
operatiomally so I wondered what systems other people have. I don't want to go
down the google groups road. What I am looking for is a fully-functioal
Newsreader

Any thoughts?

Norman

[Bernard Burton]

Hello Norman,
Glad to hear from you again.
I use Outlook Express and News.Individual.net. They do charge a fee, but it
is nominal, can't recall how much, but about E10 per year I think. I am
unable to think of any example when the service has been unavailable in the
past 10 to 15 years.
Hope you are keeping well.
--
Bernard Burton
www.woksat.info/wwp.html

Post by Norman Lynagh
Good evening all,
As you are probably aware, I haven'posted much on here during March and April.
The problem is that my newsreader has decided to go belly-up after 20-or so
years of faithful service. Nothing I can do will make it work. I have cobbled
together something that lets me read the posts and I have managed to get this
post together (at least I think I have), None of it is at all fully functional
operatiomally so I wondered what systems other people have. I don't want to go
down the google groups road. What I am looking for is a fully-functioal
Newsreader
Any thoughts?
Norman
--
Norman Lynagh
Tideswell, Derbyshire
303m a.s.l.
https://peakdistrictweather.org

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[N_Cook]

Post by Norman Lynagh
Good evening all,
As you are probably aware, I haven'posted much on here during March and April.
The problem is that my newsreader has decided to go belly-up after 20-or so
years of faithful service. Nothing I can do will make it work. I have cobbled
together something that lets me read the posts and I have managed to get this
post together (at least I think I have), None of it is at all fully functional
operatiomally so I wondered what systems other people have. I don't want to go
down the google groups road. What I am looking for is a fully-functioal
Newsreader
Any thoughts?
Norman

I use an anciet version of Thunderbird 15.0.1 on win7 via
eternal-september. I remember it was a bit of a struggle to set up the
account with e-s but following the detailed guidance out there, got
there, and no problems since, a few outages for a few hours, but thats
in perhaps 15 or so years of continous use

[John Hall]

Post by Norman Lynagh
Good evening all,
As you are probably aware, I haven'posted much on here during March and April.
The problem is that my newsreader has decided to go belly-up after 20-or so
years of faithful service.

Which newsreader is it? Maybe someone else here is using the same one,
and has managed to make it work? Also are you sure that it's the
newsreader that's at fault, and not the news server that you use? Though
from the headers of your post, it looks like you are using NIN, which
seems to rule that out as the reason.

Post by Norman Lynagh
Nothing I can do will make it work. I have cobbled
together something that lets me read the posts and I have managed to get this
post together (at least I think I have), None of it is at all fully functional
operatiomally so I wondered what systems other people have. I don't want to go
down the google groups road.

I don't think that's an option any more anyway, as Google recently
withdrew the Google Groups service. However I believe there are other
outfits that can be found on the WWW offering a comparable service.

Post by Norman Lynagh
What I am looking for is a fully-functioal
Newsreader
Any thoughts?
Norman

Unfortunately the newsreader I use, Turnpike, though excellent in many
respects, hasn't been updated for about 15 years and only supports
32-bit Windows, not 64-bit. I believe Mozilla Thunderbird - usually just
called Thunderbird - is the commonest newsreader used nowadays. It also
provides email, but you probably won't want to use that. I believe it's
free.

You might find this Wikipedia article helpful in considering newsreaders
to consider, though it looks like it's a bit out of date:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Usenet_newsreaders

See also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Usenet_newsreaders

[Alan LeHun]

Post by John Hall
You might find this Wikipedia article helpful in considering newsreaders
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Usenet_newsreaders
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Usenet_newsreaders

Lol. I'm still using Microplanet Gravity v3 and it's not even mentioned
on those lists. Not even in the discontinued sections.

I did install xananews to see if I could get a bit more control on the
filters but I just couldn't like it. Not mentioned on those lists
either.

[John Hall]

Post by Norman Lynagh
Good evening all,
As you are probably aware, I haven'posted much on here during March and April.
The problem is that my newsreader has decided to go belly-up after 20-or so
years of faithful service. Nothing I can do will make it work. I have cobbled
together something that lets me read the posts and I have managed to get this
post together (at least I think I have), None of it is at all fully functional
operatiomally so I wondered what systems other people have. I don't want to go
down the google groups road. What I am looking for is a fully-functioal
Newsreader
Any thoughts?
Norman

One further thought. Have you tried uninstalling and then reinstalling
xananews (which from your headers it looks like you use)? If you no
longer have the original zip or whatever to reinstall from, then I see
it can still be downloaded from here:

https://xananews.software.informer.com/