Suggest good free news reader?

On Thursday, May 11, 2017 at 2:57:18 PM UTC-4, Michael Black wrote:

On Thu, 11 May 2017, Sergey Kubushyn wrote:

Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> wrote:
On Tue, 9 May 2017, Sergey Kubushyn wrote:

Mark Zacharias <mark_zacharias@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
I retired last fall and this computer does not support my old Windoze Mail news reader. Can someone suggest a good free reader? I understand Free Agent is no longer "free".

For the moment I'm slumming it with Google Groups.

Mark Z.

tin The best ever and totally free.

But does it run on Windows?

What is Windows?

I don't know, I hear talk of some new operating system.

But the real issue is that apparently that's what Mark is using, so
"running on Windows" would seem to be a necessary matter here.

Michael

Guys, again, what is the advantage of using a dedicated news reader as opposed to just using Google groups? I'm not being adversarial as I don't have a clue what a dedicated news reader program does or why it's better.

This is what I see when I access through Google:

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/sci.electronics.repair/aRIH3Zpvuts

New posts show up as soon as they're posted and my postings are updated immediately as well.

 

[Sergey Kubushyn]

ohger1s@gmail.com wrote:

On Thursday, May 11, 2017 at 2:57:18 PM UTC-4, Michael Black wrote:
On Thu, 11 May 2017, Sergey Kubushyn wrote:

Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> wrote:
On Tue, 9 May 2017, Sergey Kubushyn wrote:

Mark Zacharias <mark_zacharias@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
I retired last fall and this computer does not support my old Windoze Mail news reader. Can someone suggest a good free reader? I understand Free Agent is no longer "free".

For the moment I'm slumming it with Google Groups.

Mark Z.

tin The best ever and totally free.

But does it run on Windows?

What is Windows?

I don't know, I hear talk of some new operating system.

But the real issue is that apparently that's what Mark is using, so
"running on Windows" would seem to be a necessary matter here.

Michael

Guys, again, what is the advantage of using a dedicated news reader as opposed to just using Google groups? I'm not being adversarial as I don't have a clue what a dedicated news reader program does or why it's better.

This is what I see when I access through Google:

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/sci.electronics.repair/aRIH3Zpvuts

New posts show up as soon as they're posted and my postings are updated immediately as well.

Google sucks big time. Not just that is it evil, not just one must be stupid
to trust them (some even store all their documents with them), but have you
ever read something written in any language but English from Google? E.g.
russian language groups are epic failure, screwed up beyond repair...

Then does anybody here remember Vera Lynn^W^Weh, eg. AOL Virtual Cities or
whatever it's been called back then? Never ever put all eggs in the same
basket. The power of Usenet is that nobody owns it, there is no management
who could shut it down, nobody to sue, no single location and so on. Usenet
is _NOT_ a business so it can't go belly up or decide to pump up their
profits by axing those parts that don't bring enough revenue not even
mentioning those not bringing any revenue at all with absolutely no prospect
of improving in foreseable future...

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On Thu, 11 May 2017, Sergey Kubushyn wrote:

Michael Black <et...@ncf.ca> wrote:
On Tue, 9 May 2017, Sergey Kubushyn wrote:

Mark Zacharias <mark_za...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
I retired last fall and this computer does not support my old Windoze Mail news reader. Can someone suggest a good free reader? I understand Free Agent is no longer "free".

For the moment I'm slumming it with Google Groups.

Mark Z.

tin The best ever and totally free.

But does it run on Windows?

What is Windows?

Software on an adjustable animated screen.