30-08-2003, 08:12 PM
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How to access this with out outlook
(billtheburglar) wrote in message . com...
Ron Clark wrote in message . ..
On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 10:05:22 +0000 (UTC), "MLL"
wrote:
Hello everyone,
I have searched for a way to access the news group without using outlook
express.
Any and all info would be helpful!
Be really daring and get Forté Agent.
Dump that Billysoft crap once and for all.
go to google.com, click groups, search for "uk.rec.gardening", add it
to your favourites, view it in your browser
I use Google Groups, but only because I've never got round to the
fiddle of installing Free Agent or "the German server" (which I
believe is going to go members-only soon).
I couldn't recommend it except for its full(?) Usenet archive. It
takes up to twelve hours to display a posting; it regularly hiccups
with "Message not found" when you try to get a reply form up; it often
reports falsely that you've got the wrong subject line when you try to
send a reply; it isn't configurable; it's web-based, not client-based,
so very expensive to run unless you're on an always-on connection or a
monthly fee, and you can't work off-line; and as a clincher, it
sometimes seems to split threads in busier newsgroups, so the same
subject line appears twice or more, and you have to read both.
It's ok if you only use one or two less busy groups like this one (the
poor things out there don't know what they're missing!); but not if
you want a number of groups or one or two very busy ones.
Mike.
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