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I am just asking this here because I have been wanting to spend more time on the Baen Bar but like others I find the interface so kludgey....soooooo, speaking of the NNTP group for Baen's Bar...I haven't regularly read newsgroups for a loooog time. Almost back to just a few years post Compuserve being the only practical way for the average person to access the web and send and receive email. Ok, maybe not that long but more like since Netscape ruled the Windows browser wars, had a great email client as well as NNTP reader...needless to say, what are some of the nicer Windows based newsreaders these days?
I could use a Linux based reader if I setup a VPC running Ubuntu (I guess that is a reasonable Linux OS for a non-ix guy.
I know I can use google but folks here are more on on top of things as a rule. I prefer Windows but just don't look forward to scouring Source Forge or even CNET Downloads...
I also suppose we can use Calibre to download NNTP feeds? And of course a reasonably fast browser based NNTP client might work as well.
I looked at Thunderbird a while back but it was a few years ago now and not very stable/polished.
I always preferred newsgroups over forums and took forever to get comfy with forums until we got nice editors and some dominant forum software so every site does not need have a new learning curve.
Thanks for any suggestions while I try a bit of searching. Or, am I wasting time because newsgroup spamming is even worse today than a decade back? Where has the past decade gone?
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