classd101 said:
Yes, we have a winner!
I cheated, felt like dusting off the old search skills.
Your victory is still just as sweet. It's not easy to get that
from the clues given.
All I want for a prize is to know what the top two news
readers are, as google just went to hell.
....and yur well-deserved reward is...
First, you need to get away from anything web-based. HTTP is for
web pages, NNTP is for newsgroups.
So now you need a news server and a newsreader.
News server:
Individual.net (free, no binaries, good spam filtering)
[
http://www.individual.net/ ]
Supernews (cheap, free 30n day trial, binaries, near-perfect spam
filtering) [
http://www.supernews.com/ ]
Sign up for both, try them, and decide whether to drop SN after
trying it.
News reader:
Go to Newsreaders.com [
http://www.newsreaders.com/ ] and click
on the [ Clients ("Newsreaders") ] section for your OS
[
http://www.newsreaders.com/win/clients.html ] Try Free Agent
[
http://www.forteinc.com/agent/freagent.htm ] first and consider
Agent [
http://www.forteinc.com/agent/index.htm ]. Also see if
your web browser or email client have a newsreader.
Do NOT under any circumstances use any version of Microsoft
Outlook to read newsgroups. Trust me on this one.
There is a lot of other info worth reading on newsreaders.com.
