He goaded me into getting a real news agent.

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On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 14:41:02 -0600, Karl Groves wrote:

And a good one, if you're talking about Xnews. You might want to upgrade
from that nearly four year old version you're using, though. Last release
was in October.

http://blinkynet.net/comp/xnewsrels.html


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And lo, Karl Groves didst speak in alt.www.webmaster:

And about damn time too! :P Welcome, welcome.

Grey

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Blinky the Shark <no.spam@box.invalid> wrote in
newsan.2006.01.25.20.45.32.853614@thurston.blink ynet.net:

Weird thing, that. Seems this guy's only official release was 2002! I DL'ed
the most recent "test".

Thanks for the heads up.


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Karl Groves <karl@karlcore.com> stumbled into news:alt.www.webmaster
and said:

yeah - he's good at that

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On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 15:00:27 -0600, Karl Groves wrote:

As you can tell from my page, that's the one to have, Luu's weird
terminology be damned.

Here's an inside quirk for you. A while back, he released a version
with the *wrong* first number; it was out of sequence. When I pointed this
out, he changed that release to "??.nn.nn", and one or two subsequent
minor updates continued that format. Eventually we were able to
convince Luu that versions designated ?.nn.nn looked really st00pid and
didn't reflect well on the program[mer], and he went back to numbering,
albeit with a different format (as you can see from the old and new
numbering for the two versions you've just installed).[1]

My pleasure.

[1] The new numbering system is obvious. The old one, like with the
version you first installed was XnewsYear.month.day, where XnewsYear was
the "year of the program": 1 for the first year of its existence, 2 for
its second year, etc. IIRC, the first year of Xnews was 1998, so your
5.nn.nn version was from 2002.


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GreyWyvern <spam@greywyvern.com> wrote in
newsp.s3yce0vjsl6xfd@news.nas.net:

Now I just gotta get this all set up.
I tried Thunderbird for about 5 minutes. I like its purdy interface but it
kept freezing up for some reason.


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On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 15:17:05 -0600, Karl Groves wrote:

For future reference, Karl, see if you can remember news.software.readers.
That's the Xnews de facto support group, and it's full of wizards. And a
good bunch of folks. You can do a lot more with Xnews than what's evident
from the GUI's configuration area. Far more, like various per-group
(rather than overall) settings. It's tops, for the Win World. If the
need arises, see ya in that group.

Thunderbird is an okay rudimentary client (once you figure out how to get
rid of those stupid blue vertical lines that replace the ">" quote
indicators), but compared to the top-flight clients it's a baby
sister with a soggy diaper.


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Blinky the Shark wrote:
hey now, those lines aren't just blue... each nested level has a
different color! (How do you get rid of them?)

The thing that I don't like is that when you are using gnupg and
enigmail, replies, forwards, and even sends get a bit more mangled than
I care to see. However, the alternative at this point is to use Outlook,
which I cannot stand one bit.

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And lo, Blinky the Shark didst speak in alt.www.webmaster:

Opera uses the "line" feature, with a different colour for each level. It
works just fine for me, saves room on my screen too. Why do you have a
problem with them?

If I wanted to see the >'s, I could always view the message source

Grey

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