enigma said:

ncstockguy wrote in

oups.com:

also getting a real newsreader instead of using Google
helps cut the visible spam immensely
-- Can you suggest one? Thanks.

OE has rudimentary filtering.

That's being polite. =)

for a free downloadable
newsreader, i like xNews (i've been using it for over 10
years).

There's a *much* newer version out, than the one you're using. =) (Ignore
the "Test" in the file name, Luu has a weird way of naming files. It's only
the exe in the "Test" version.)

Free Agent is the trial version of Agent, which loads
of people like. i'm not one of them

Incomplete filtering with even the paid version of Agent. Don't bother.
It's either Xnews or Dialog, for Windows. Nothing else even comes close to
their filtering capabilities.

do you know if your ISP carries newsgroups? if they gave you
info on a NNTP server they do. if not, there are several
servers you can subscribe to, some have minimal annual fees &
there are a couple that are still free.
really, pretty much anything is better than trying to read
usenet through Google!

Which is a good reason to filter G2 right down the tube. =)

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Eggs

A computer scientist is someone who, when told to 'Go to Hell', sees the
'go to', rather than the destination, as harmful.