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  • Re: Newsgroup readers

    From Graeme Wall@21:1/5 to Geoff on Mon Mar 21 10:11:35 2022
    On 21/03/2022 10:08, Geoff wrote:
    Apparently my messages to this group are not being formed correctly by Windows Live Mail v16. It is a bit old after all!!

    Geoff
    Any suggestions please for an alternative, preferably free!  I want it
    just for this group, I'll keep WLM for my emails.

    Many thanks!

    Thunderbird, it's what I use. <https://www.thunderbird.net/en-GB/>

    --
    Graeme Wall
    This account not read.

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  • From Geoff@21:1/5 to All on Mon Mar 21 10:08:14 2022
    Apparently my messages to this group are not being formed correctly by
    Windows Live Mail v16. It is a bit old after all!!

    Geoff
    Any suggestions please for an alternative, preferably free! I want it just
    for this group, I'll keep WLM for my emails.

    Many thanks!

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  • From Geoff@21:1/5 to Graeme Wall on Mon Mar 21 11:23:09 2022
    Graeme Wall wrote:

    On 21/03/2022 10:08, Geoff wrote:
    Apparently my messages to this group are not being formed correctly
    by Windows Live Mail v16. It is a bit old after all!!

    Geoff
    Any suggestions please for an alternative, preferably free!  I want
    it just for this group, I'll keep WLM for my emails.

    Many thanks!

    Thunderbird, it's what I use. <https://www.thunderbird.net/en-GB/>

    Many thanks. I've just downloaded XanaNews and giving it a try. If
    this is successful, I'll try Thunderbird.

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  • From Geoff@21:1/5 to Geoff on Mon Mar 21 11:25:40 2022
    Geoff wrote:

    Graeme Wall wrote:

    On 21/03/2022 10:08, Geoff wrote:
    Apparently my messages to this group are not being formed
    correctly by Windows Live Mail v16. It is a bit old after all!!

    Geoff
    Any suggestions please for an alternative, preferably free!  I
    want it just for this group, I'll keep WLM for my emails.

    Many thanks!

    Thunderbird, it's what I use. <https://www.thunderbird.net/en-GB/>

    Many thanks. I've just downloaded XanaNews and giving it a try. If
    this is successful, I'll try Thunderbird.

    Should have said If this is NOT successful!

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  • From Steve Hayes@21:1/5 to All on Mon Mar 21 15:54:58 2022
    On Mon, 21 Mar 2022 10:08:14 -0000, "Geoff" <onlyme101@btinternet.com>
    wrote:

    Apparently my messages to this group are not being formed correctly by >Windows Live Mail v16. It is a bit old after all!!

    Geoff
    Any suggestions please for an alternative, preferably free! I want it just >for this group, I'll keep WLM for my emails.

    Many thanks!


    I don't see anything wring with this one.

    What's the problem?

    Most of the badly-formed messages I see are posted on GoogleGroups.



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    Steve Hayes
    Web: http://hayesgreene.wordpress.com/
    http://hayesgreene.blogspot.com
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  • From Nigel Reed@21:1/5 to Geoff on Mon Mar 21 10:18:45 2022
    On Mon, 21 Mar 2022 10:08:14 -0000
    "Geoff" <onlyme101@btinternet.com> wrote:

    Apparently my messages to this group are not being formed correctly
    by Windows Live Mail v16. It is a bit old after all!!

    Geoff
    Any suggestions please for an alternative, preferably free! I want
    it just for this group, I'll keep WLM for my emails.

    Many thanks!

    I'm using Claws and it's a really good usenet client. You can also use
    it for a mail client if you wish.

    You can find a windows port here

    https://www.claws-mail.org/win32/





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    telnet endofthelinebbs.com 23

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  • From Geoff@21:1/5 to Nigel Reed on Tue Mar 22 09:50:00 2022
    Nigel Reed wrote:

    On Mon, 21 Mar 2022 10:08:14 -0000
    "Geoff" <onlyme101@btinternet.com> wrote:

    Apparently my messages to this group are not being formed correctly
    by Windows Live Mail v16. It is a bit old after all!!

    Geoff
    Any suggestions please for an alternative, preferably free! I want
    it just for this group, I'll keep WLM for my emails.

    Many thanks!

    I'm using Claws and it's a really good usenet client. You can also use
    it for a mail client if you wish.

    You can find a windows port here

    https://www.claws-mail.org/win32/

    Thank you.

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  • From Geoff@21:1/5 to Steve Hayes on Tue Mar 22 09:48:14 2022
    Steve Hayes wrote:

    On Mon, 21 Mar 2022 10:08:14 -0000, "Geoff" <onlyme101@btinternet.com>
    wrote:

    Apparently my messages to this group are not being formed correctly
    by Windows Live Mail v16. It is a bit old after all!!

    Geoff
    Any suggestions please for an alternative, preferably free! I want
    it just for this group, I'll keep WLM for my emails.

    Many thanks!


    I don't see anything wring with this one.

    What's the problem?

    Most of the badly-formed messages I see are posted on GoogleGroups.

    I'm not sure. It's ben reported to me that it's not formatting
    properly. I can't see it as others see it.
    Anyway I've changed to XanaNews now and I'll see how that goes.

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  • From J. P. Gilliver (John)@21:1/5 to Geoff on Tue Mar 22 15:22:14 2022
    On Tue, 22 Mar 2022 at 09:48:14, Geoff <onlyme101@btinternet.com> wrote
    (my responses usually FOLLOW):
    Steve Hayes wrote:

    On Mon, 21 Mar 2022 10:08:14 -0000, "Geoff" <onlyme101@btinternet.com>
    wrote:

    Apparently my messages to this group are not being formed correctly
    by Windows Live Mail v16. It is a bit old after all!!

    Geoff
    Any suggestions please for an alternative, preferably free! I want
    it just for this group, I'll keep WLM for my emails.

    Many thanks!


    I don't see anything wring with this one.

    What's the problem?

    None with the above one, which was a start-of-a-new-thread one. WLM
    (from I think version 15) did not indicate quoted text in followups at
    all (e. g. by prepending "> " to quoted lines), thus making any followup
    posted by a user of it pretty hard to read, as you couldn't tell which
    text was being quoted from the previous post, and which was new from the followup poster. That, combined with a certain confusion over
    top/middle/inter posting, caused WLM users in some 'groups to even get killfiled!

    Most of the badly-formed messages I see are posted on GoogleGroups.

    I'm not sure. It's ben reported to me that it's not formatting
    properly. I can't see it as others see it.
    Anyway I've changed to XanaNews now and I'll see how that goes.

    Well, it seems to be adding indication of quoted text anyway (in your
    post, any line you've quoted from Steve now has a "> " in front of it),
    which is a good start - means we can easily see which lines are Steve's,
    and which are your replies.

    Thanks for taking my request to change client in the way it was
    intended, by the way!
    --
    J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

    Illinc fui et illud feci, habe tunicam?

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  • From J. P. Gilliver (John)@21:1/5 to Geoff on Tue Mar 22 15:15:30 2022
    On Mon, 21 Mar 2022 at 11:25:40, Geoff <onlyme101@btinternet.com> wrote
    (my responses usually FOLLOW):
    Geoff wrote:

    Graeme Wall wrote:

    On 21/03/2022 10:08, Geoff wrote:
    Apparently my messages to this group are not being formed

    Not just to this group - but it may be that users of other 'groups you participate in don't mind (or even use it themselves).

    correctly by Windows Live Mail v16. It is a bit old after all!!

    Geoff
    Any suggestions please for an alternative, preferably free!  I
    want it just for this group, I'll keep WLM for my emails.

    Many thanks!

    Thunderbird, it's what I use. <https://www.thunderbird.net/en-GB/>

    That's what I was going to suggest - it's pretty widely-known, so you
    should find help with it without too much difficulty. And a common
    interface for news and mail, if you should ever decide to go for it.
    Another (news-only) popular one is (Free) Agent, though that is now
    rather long in the tooth (and _I_ can't help you with it).


    Many thanks. I've just downloaded XanaNews and giving it a try. If
    this is successful, I'll try Thunderbird.

    Should have said If this is NOT successful!

    I guessed (-:

    Good luck with Xana. I don't know that one.
    --
    J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

    Illinc fui et illud feci, habe tunicam?

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