In message , Paul
writes:
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Any solutions, like a better free browser and newsgroup reader ?
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For a newsreader, there are some crusty ones, but there
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There are other options, but nothing are refined as
Thunderbird or Agent. Some mail tools pretend to do
USENET as well, but that doesn't always end well.
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"Pretend"? As far as the user is concerned, I don't know about any
pretence: OE, Turnpike, and Thunderbird all succeed. (What's going on
"under the hood" - like TB being mostly a browser - doesn't bother me.)

As for not ending well, I'm not going to take that challenge: I prefer
to put it as "some people do not like that idea, some do", or something
like that. The only argument against it that cuts any ice with me is the
suggestion that one might forget which one was using and post when you
meant to email or vice versa. I concede the possibility; in practice, I
think I've come across maybe five or ten examples in 30 years or so of
posts that were intended as emails, which is the more drastic way round.
(That's not counting gmail users misled by Google Groups' user
interface, which isn't part of that discussion.)
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