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From: sosman@terratron.com (Steven Osman)
Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english
Subject: Re: news-groups problems
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 18:13:14 GMT
Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE)
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X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.5/32.452

You should give Forte Agent a chance too.  It is one of the de facto
news readers out there.

Steven

On Sat, 27 Nov 1999 12:11:28 -0000, "Jon Prestidge (Moose)"
<jon@surfed.to> wrote:

>Cheers for the pointers I'll forward your messages to Carlos...
>
>...yes now you come to mention it, it probably is that he has not put his
>username and password in to the fiendishly hidden window where you enter
>that kind of stuff for newsgroups: which just I couldn't see anywhere in my
>outlook-depress until a few minutes ago, when I was having a look around the
>labarinth of its menus and accidentally discovered that you only get to see
>the newsgroup set-up details when you happen to be in a newsgroup -- even
>though e-mail and newsgroups are mashed into the same program and there is
>other newsgroup stuff you can access in any mode.
>
>Hmm... I think I might try NG when I get some spare time...I'm getting
>fed-up with outlook-depress's foibles (e.g. like the 'online/offline' option
>that does absoloutely nothing).
>
>By the way, speaking of Yaroze newsgroups... which ones are still frequently
>used these days?   I was just looking at the full list of the Yaroze
>newsgroups and I only have a fraction of them enabled.  They can't all be
>lively like this can they?  ... well appart from one of the ones I look at
>(the Code Warrior one) which is absoulutely dead now.
>
>Cheers,
>Jon
>
>