I got me some horses to ride on, to ride on as long as your army keeps perfectly still

[primroseburrows]

Does anyone know about usenet newsreaders, like what's the best one, how expensive, and such? I don't really want to use GoogleGroups, and wah, I'd really like to get back to alt.books.stephen-king again.

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[ginzai.livejournal.com]

I've only used Google Groups. It's annoying but quick to use and posts don't take that long to get up. You can link it to your Outlook, but I don't quite know how. Good luck to you!

[heinous_bitca.livejournal.com]

FreeAgent (http://www.forteinc.com/agent/index.php) is supposed to be pretty good. There is a pay version of it too.

Here's a list of a bunch of them: http://www.newsreaders.com/win/clients.html

You can supposedly do it from within Outlook, but I don't use Outlook, so...

You can also read from within Opera, but that's also a browser. It's my default browser, too. I like it. And it looks like Thunderbird, the free email client from Mozilla (like Firefox for the browser end) can do newsgroup reading.

[primroseburrows.livejournal.com]

I downloaded FreeAgent (actually did the 30-day trial thing), but it's asking me technogeeky questions, wah. I don't even know what an NTTP is. I am v. techhie-challenged.

[primroseburrows.livejournal.com]

Google Groups says three to nine hours. That's not a long time?

[ginzai.livejournal.com]

*wince* Okay, so it does take ages.

[heinous_bitca.livejournal.com]

NNTP is the address of your news server. It's likely something like nntp.cox.net, but you'd need to check with your provider. :)