Hey everyone! I'm trying to get into the Usenet thing, seems to be that I managed to get a lot of help from their on some issues before.

What I'm looking for is a decent newsreader. I'm looking for something simple, small footprint, very customizable, and can do multiple servers. The ability to be run from a floppy or similar would be a great benefit.

Anyways, if you have any good ones to recommend, please list them .

I use Newsbin Pro for binaries, but it doesn't really fit your description. For text groups I just use Outlook Express.

I always recommed Agent, or Free Agent. http://www.forteinc.com
Works great for binaries, and text ones work good too

For downloading I use Newsbin Pro 4.2. And for reading I use Mozilla Thunderbird. With Thinderbird u can do a lot of thing.

for downloading I use Newsreactor, its pretty simple. CLick and go type of thingi.

for uploading and crap, I use Powerposter

Make sure you get one with Yenc support (almost all of them have it now except Outlook) because most of the good stuff on Usenet these days is posted in Yenc. And people bitch like no tomorrow! I'd hate to see you ending up as one of those unfortunate people.

If you do decide to just go with OE (it's what I use) make sure you get Yproxy, which is a simple, non-intrusive program for seamless decoding of Yenc files. You can find it at http://www.brawnylads.com in the software section.

THanks everyone, guess I'll just use OE for my reading pleasure unless I can manage to find something else.

I use the exact same setup. newsbin great for binaries (supports yenc encoding) and just OE for reading.

I don't think the current version of Forte Agent supports multiple servers.

how can i download files with Mozolla Thunderbird. I m havin a problem with newbin pro. when i go to a group i cannt see the files that i downloaded before, so when i opwn both newsbin and thunderbird i cannt see the files in newsbin but i can see those in thunderbird but dont know how to downloaded .rar files from thinderbird.

Can't speak for mozilla but in newsbin, once you've downloaded files, to see them again, you have to uncheck the "show new posts" option (so the older posts show up) and then select the "ignore filters" option (so files that you've downloaded will be visable again.)

Both options are on screen to the left the filter box (where you can type a keyword to limit your search and quickly show those downloaded files again)

thnx man solved my prob. I downloaded a file and unfotunately deleted it and i needed to download it again. thnx again.