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Newsgroup readers
Okay, currently using Thunderbird for reading newsgroups. It's terribly
buggy for this purpose, suffers from all kinds of memory leaks. Thinking of removing the newsgroup functionality from it, and put it somewhere else. What's still out there that is free and is not made by Mozilla? I'm looking for a real reader as opposed to a binary group downloader, of course. Yousuf Khan |
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On 2012-10-08, Yousuf Khan wrote:
Okay, currently using Thunderbird for reading newsgroups. It's terribly buggy for this purpose, suffers from all kinds of memory leaks. Thinking of removing the newsgroup functionality from it, and put it somewhere else. What's still out there that is free and is not made by Mozilla? I'm looking for a real reader as opposed to a binary group downloader, of course. Yousuf Khan If you don't mind the keybord interface, and having to run in a terminal window, SLRN is excelent. It runs fine on Windows 7. http://www.foory.de/thw/slrn/windows/ Might take a little work to configure correctly, but once thats done there's nothing better. -- Morten Nygaard Ã…snes http://www.twitter.com/mortenaa |
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On Mon, 08 Oct 2012 01:27:56 -0400, Yousuf Khan
wrote: Okay, currently using Thunderbird for reading newsgroups. It's terribly buggy for this purpose, suffers from all kinds of memory leaks. Thinking of removing the newsgroup functionality from it, and put it somewhere else. What's still out there that is free and is not made by Mozilla? I'm looking for a real reader as opposed to a binary group downloader, of course. Forte Agent still has a free version. -- Char Jackson |
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Yousuf Khan wrote in news:50726426$1
@news.bnb-lp.com: Okay, currently using Thunderbird for reading newsgroups. It's terribly buggy for this purpose, suffers from all kinds of memory leaks. Thinking of removing the newsgroup functionality from it, and put it somewhere else. What's still out there that is free and is not made by Mozilla? I'm looking for a real reader as opposed to a binary group downloader, of course. Yousuf Khan I am using XNEWS to read your message(xp pro sp3). Doing that because TB started to behave terrible, probably compressing/cleaning a group several times in a short period, becoming very un-responsive. |
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Yousuf Khan wrote:
Okay, currently using Thunderbird for reading newsgroups. It's terribly buggy for this purpose, suffers from all kinds of memory leaks. Thinking of removing the newsgroup functionality from it, and put it somewhere else. What's still out there that is free and is not made by Mozilla? I'm looking for a real reader as opposed to a binary group downloader, of course. Yousuf Khan Simple. Take note of the headers of people posting to this group, and check their User Agent. That'll tell you what they're using. I'm using Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (Windows/20100228), with a current memory usage of 90MB or so. On a 4GB machine. There is one sucky bug in this version I don't really like, but I wouldn't trade it for a version that leaks. Paul |
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Yousuf Khan wrote:
currently using Thunderbird for reading newsgroups. It's terribly buggy for this purpose, suffers from all kinds of memory leaks. Try a more recent version of TB before you ditch it? You seem to be on version 9.0, version 16.0 comes out tomorrow ... |
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google freeware newsreaders- there is a few of them-- xnews, gravity,
and others On Mon, 08 Oct 2012 09:38:09 +0100, Andy Burns wrote: Yousuf Khan wrote: currently using Thunderbird for reading newsgroups. It's terribly buggy for this purpose, suffers from all kinds of memory leaks. Try a more recent version of TB before you ditch it? You seem to be on version 9.0, version 16.0 comes out tomorrow ... |
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On Mon, 08 Oct 2012 01:27:56 -0400, Yousuf Khan wrote:
Okay, currently using Thunderbird for reading newsgroups. It's terribly buggy for this purpose, suffers from all kinds of memory leaks. Thinking of removing the newsgroup functionality from it, and put it somewhere else. What's still out there that is free and is not made by Mozilla? I'm looking for a real reader as opposed to a binary group downloader, of course. Yousuf Khan What version of TBird? Running TBird 15.0.1 here - works perfectly OK... |
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Okay, currently using Thunderbird for reading newsgroups. It's terribly buggy
for this purpose, suffers from all kinds of memory leaks. Thinking of removing the newsgroup functionality from it, and put it somewhere else. What's still out there that is free and is not made by Mozilla? I'm looking for a real reader as opposed to a binary group downloader, of course. Yousuf Khan MesNews http://www.mesnews.net/gb/ or Gravity http://mpgravity.sourceforge.net/ -- mick |
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In message , Gordonbp
writes On Mon, 08 Oct 2012 01:27:56 -0400, Yousuf Khan wrote: Okay, currently using Thunderbird for reading newsgroups. It's terribly buggy for this purpose, suffers from all kinds of memory leaks. Thinking of removing the newsgroup functionality from it, and put it somewhere else. What's still out there that is free and is not made by Mozilla? I'm looking for a real reader as opposed to a binary group downloader, of course. Yousuf Khan What version of TBird? Running TBird 15.0.1 here - works perfectly OK... +1 (in XP). I started with (I think) version 8, and I can't say that I have ever noticed any problems with it. What is the effect of the memory leaks? -- Ian |
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Yousuf Khan wrote:
Okay, currently using Thunderbird for reading newsgroups. It's terribly buggy for this purpose, suffers from all kinds of memory leaks. Thinking of removing the newsgroup functionality from it, and put it somewhere else. What's still out there that is free and is not made by Mozilla? I'm looking for a real reader as opposed to a binary group downloader, of course. Yousuf Khan I'm still with the latest Tbird. I put up with the memory leaks, which don't seem too bad at the moment. The problem is to find any genuinely scientific comparison of other readers. In this group we discuss this time and again; and everybody just supports their favourite. There is this Wiki article, but it would take the patience of a saint to try them all; even just the free ones. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compari...et_newsreaders Ed |
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"Ed Cryer" wrote in message ... Yousuf Khan wrote: Okay, currently using Thunderbird for reading newsgroups. It's terribly buggy for this purpose, suffers from all kinds of memory leaks. Thinking of removing the newsgroup functionality from it, and put it somewhere else. What's still out there that is free and is not made by Mozilla? I'm looking for a real reader as opposed to a binary group downloader, of course. Yousuf Khan I'm still with the latest Tbird. I put up with the memory leaks, which don't seem too bad at the moment. The problem is to find any genuinely scientific comparison of other readers. In this group we discuss this time and again; and everybody just supports their favourite. There is this Wiki article, but it would take the patience of a saint to try them all; even just the free ones. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compari...et_newsreaders That's why everyone recommends their favorite- there are no saints here :-) -- SC Tom |
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On 10/8/2012 7:24 AM, Ed Cryer wrote:
Yousuf Khan wrote: Okay, currently using Thunderbird for reading newsgroups. It's terribly buggy for this purpose, suffers from all kinds of memory leaks. Thinking of removing the newsgroup functionality from it, and put it somewhere else. What's still out there that is free and is not made by Mozilla? I'm looking for a real reader as opposed to a binary group downloader, of course. Yousuf Khan I'm still with the latest Tbird. I put up with the memory leaks, which don't seem too bad at the moment. The problem is to find any genuinely scientific comparison of other readers. In this group we discuss this time and again; and everybody just supports their favourite. There is this Wiki article, but it would take the patience of a saint to try them all; even just the free ones. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compari...et_newsreaders Ed I've been using TB for years. Now it's up to 15. Please tell me what you mean by "memory leak". My only problem with TB is that the Theme (Skin), for some reason, is not available for TB 15. I rolled back to TB 14 in order to use that skin (Classic Reloaded). I understand that TB is on its way out, at least from a new feature point of view. Too bad as I also use it as a mail client. |
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On 08/10/2012 3:23 AM, Paul wrote:
Yousuf Khan wrote: Okay, currently using Thunderbird for reading newsgroups. It's terribly buggy for this purpose, suffers from all kinds of memory leaks. Thinking of removing the newsgroup functionality from it, and put it somewhere else. What's still out there that is free and is not made by Mozilla? I'm looking for a real reader as opposed to a binary group downloader, of course. Yousuf Khan Simple. Take note of the headers of people posting to this group, and check their User Agent. That'll tell you what they're using. I'm using Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (Windows/20100228), with a current memory usage of 90MB or so. On a 4GB machine. There is one sucky bug in this version I don't really like, but I wouldn't trade it for a version that leaks. I've used that version years ago, unfortunately it wasn't any less buggy than the current versions. That's why I said no Mozilla programs, since they all share a common code base. So that would include SeaMonkey besides Thunderbird. Yousuf Khan |
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On 08/10/2012 5:59 AM, Gordonbp wrote:
On Mon, 08 Oct 2012 01:27:56 -0400, Yousuf Khan wrote: Okay, currently using Thunderbird for reading newsgroups. It's terribly buggy for this purpose, suffers from all kinds of memory leaks. Thinking of removing the newsgroup functionality from it, and put it somewhere else. What's still out there that is free and is not made by Mozilla? I'm looking for a real reader as opposed to a binary group downloader, of course. Yousuf Khan What version of TBird? Running TBird 15.0.1 here - works perfectly OK... Currently stuck at 9.0 here, but the same problems have existed since at least the 1.0 days. Mozilla has no priority on fixing the newsgroup functionality, as very few people still use that. I am not interested in going over the history of my problems with Thunderbird, I've created bug reports and they've gotten nowhere. Let's just concentrate on finding alternatives. Yousuf Khan |
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