Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2005 18:20:43 GMT From: Laura K <lauraknospamousergraphics.com> Subject: Re: AOL dumps newsgroups
Johannes H Andersen <johsnospamsssssssssssssssssssssssssizefitter.com> wrote in news:420619E8.27B1CCD8nospamsssssssssssssssssssssssssizefitter.com: > > > Craig's C900 Site wrote: >> >> "laurak" <lauraknospamousergraphics.com> writes: >> >> >I really don't like the way Google Groups works. I can't tell what I've >> >read or not. >> >> Use a normal Unix shell account and run something like 'nn' to read >> newsgroups. Does auto-management of what's been read and what hasn't. No >> lame graphical interface to contend with. >> >> Newsgroups are after all meant to be a simple, text-based medium. >> >> Craig. > > Groups.Google was once my only news source my the ISP at the time dropped > the news server. But Groups.Google had a slow turnaround for updating, > sometimes up to 24 hours. Good for reference though since all posts are > kept. Another problem: If someone changes the subject line, the thread > becomes disconnected as a separate thread is created. My advice in general > is therefore never to change the subject line. Likewise, top postings are > cumbersome to read in Google whereas bottom postings comes out more > naturally when you scroll down an entire thread. > Use Xnews newsreader, a nice piece of freeware. http://xnews.newsguy.com/ I'm using it with BellSouth.net newsgroups (which I have for DSL) and it works great. You can get it to work exactly the way AOL did, where you show just the unread posts. Also has a "mark all read." Posts show up as fast as they did with AOL. It takes a little tweaking to get it the way you want it and I had to do some editing on the ini file to make the changes stick, but there are good instructions on doing that here: http://www.seegras.de/xnews/
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