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  Android Newsgroup Reader that doesn't suck? Triscal Islington <trust.your.technolust@mail.ru> - 2016-09-18 09:58 -0400
    Re: Android Newsgroup Reader that doesn't suck? Triscal Islington <trust.your.technolust@mail.ru> - 2016-09-18 10:00 -0400
      Re: Android Newsgroup Reader that doesn't suck? "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2016-09-18 17:39 +0200
        Re: Android Newsgroup Reader that doesn't suck? Triscal Islington <trust.your.technolust@mail.ru> - 2016-09-18 13:34 -0400
          Re: Android Newsgroup Reader that doesn't suck? XS11E <xs11eNO@SPAMyahoo.com> - 2016-09-19 10:10 -0700
        Re: Android Newsgroup Reader that doesn't suck? Triscal Islington <trust.your.technolust@mail.ru> - 2016-09-18 21:04 -0400
      Re: Android Newsgroup Reader that doesn't suck? Jeßus <j@j.net> - 2016-10-03 15:14 +1100
    Re: Android Newsgroup Reader that doesn't suck? Nil <rednoise9@REMOVETHIScomcast.net> - 2016-09-18 13:31 -0400
    Re: Android Newsgroup Reader that doesn't suck? Roger Mills <watt.tyler@gmail.com> - 2016-09-18 19:50 +0100
    Re: Android Newsgroup Reader that doesn't suck? Horace Algier <horatio@horatio.net> - 2016-09-18 22:37 +0000
      Re: Android Newsgroup Reader that doesn't suck? "Triscal" <trust.your.technolust@mail.ru> - 2016-09-20 09:51 -0400
        Re: Android Newsgroup Reader that doesn't suck? Horace Algier <horatio@horatio.net> - 2016-09-20 14:11 +0000
          Re: Android Newsgroup Reader that doesn't suck? AL <noemail@invalid.com> - 2016-09-20 11:12 -0700
    Re: Android Newsgroup Reader that doesn't suck? XS11E <xs11eNO@SPAMyahoo.com> - 2016-09-19 10:09 -0700
      Re: Android Newsgroup Reader that doesn't suck? "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2016-09-19 21:01 +0200
    Re: Android Newsgroup Reader that doesn't suck? "Triscal" <trust.your.technolust@mail.ru> - 2016-09-19 15:22 -0400
      Re: Android Newsgroup Reader that doesn't suck? Horace Algier <horatio@horatio.net> - 2016-09-20 14:11 +0000
        Re: Android Newsgroup Reader that doesn't suck? Triscal Islington <trust.your.technolust@mail.ru> - 2016-09-25 00:31 +0000

#34436 — Android Newsgroup Reader that doesn't suck?

Hey folks,

I'm new to the comp.mobile.* category and realized that, while I've been 
a newsgroup user and an android user for ages I've never crossed those 
over. There are a few decent apps for grabbing binaries but all the 
readers on android that I've tried so far are steaming piles of trash.

Do you folks have any recommendations for newsreaders that are, at the 
very least, workable for daily use? I'm more than happy to pay a 
reasonable price for an app, but I'd like to know in advance that it is 
better than the rest of the stuff I've tried.

Cheers,
Triscal

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#34437

On 2016-09-18 9:58 AM, Triscal Islington wrote:
>
> This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software.
> https://www.avast.com/antivirus
>

*sigh*

Please ignore that garbage, posting from a windows computer and I guess 
Avast inserts garbage into your messages unless you tell it not to.

-__-

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#34444

On Sun, 18 Sep 2016 10:00:59 -0400, Triscal Islington wrote:

> *sigh*
> 
> Please ignore that garbage, posting from a windows computer and I guess 
> Avast inserts garbage into your messages unless you tell it not to.

It's somewhere in the Mail Shield settings. I've shut down this shield
since it's unnecessary.

-- 
s|b

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#34446

On 2016-09-18 11:39 AM, s|b wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Sep 2016 10:00:59 -0400, Triscal Islington wrote:
>
>> *sigh*
>>
>> Please ignore that garbage, posting from a windows computer and I guess
>> Avast inserts garbage into your messages unless you tell it not to.
>
> It's somewhere in the Mail Shield settings. I've shut down this shield
> since it's unnecessary.
>

Yeah, I disabled that immediately after my first post. ;P

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#34480

Triscal Islington <trust.your.technolust@mail.ru> wrote:

> Yeah, I disabled that immediately after my first post. ;P

Thank you!

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#34456

On 2016-09-18 11:39 AM, s|b wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Sep 2016 10:00:59 -0400, Triscal Islington wrote:
>
>> *sigh*
>>
>> Please ignore that garbage, posting from a windows computer and I guess
>> Avast inserts garbage into your messages unless you tell it not to.
>
> It's somewhere in the Mail Shield settings. I've shut down this shield
> since it's unnecessary.
>

Yeah, I immediately disabled that after my first post. ;P

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#34994

On Sun, 18 Sep 2016 10:00:59 -0400, Triscal Islington
<trust.your.technolust@mail.ru> wrote:

>On 2016-09-18 9:58 AM, Triscal Islington wrote:
>>
>> This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software.
>> https://www.avast.com/antivirus
>>
>
>*sigh*
>
>Please ignore that garbage, posting from a windows computer and I guess 
>Avast inserts garbage into your messages unless you tell it not to.

Note also how they use an invalid delimiter, so that their spam shows
up in any replies.

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#34445

On 18 Sep 2016, Triscal Islington <trust.your.technolust@mail.ru>
wrote in comp.mobile.android: 

> Do you folks have any recommendations for newsreaders that are, at
> the very least, workable for daily use? I'm more than happy to pay
> a reasonable price for an app, but I'd like to know in advance
> that it is better than the rest of the stuff I've tried.

As far as I can tell from the reviews I've read, they all pretty much 
suck. And they're not going to get any better because all of them have 
been abandoned by their developers.

The only one I've actually tried is NewsGroup Reader. It, too, sucks. 
It's very inflexible, but I've forced myself to do things its way, not 
mine, so that it's usable as a reader, though posting is such a royal 
pain that I rarely do it.

Things I don't like about it: You can't reorder groups. New articles 
are listed by the original poster, not the author of the new article. 
Random articles display unwrapped and there's no on-the-fly wrapping. 
There is a filter feature but it's very limited and tedious to use.

Things I like: it doesn't crash much.

There's a for-pay version that promises more features but it doesn't 
say what those features are, and the program hasn't been updated for 
several years. The author's web site looks like it's been abandoned.

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#34447

On 18/09/2016 14:58, Triscal Islington wrote:
> Hey folks,
>
> I'm new to the comp.mobile.* category and realized that, while I've been
> a newsgroup user and an android user for ages I've never crossed those
> over. There are a few decent apps for grabbing binaries but all the
> readers on android that I've tried so far are steaming piles of trash.
>
> Do you folks have any recommendations for newsreaders that are, at the
> very least, workable for daily use? I'm more than happy to pay a
> reasonable price for an app, but I'd like to know in advance that it is
> better than the rest of the stuff I've tried.
>
> Cheers,
> Triscal
>

Which ones have you tried?
-- 
Cheers,
Roger
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checked.

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#34449

On Sun, 18 Sep 2016 09:58:33 -0400, Triscal Islington wrote:

> Do you folks have any recommendations for newsreaders that are, at the 
> very least, workable for daily use? 

Question has been asked many (many) times.
Answer is: They all suck.
 http://tinyurl.com/comp-mobile-android

Best two free ones ... 

1. Usenet Reader for Android DEMO (ken.android.nntpreader)
2. NewsGroups (net.piaohong.newsgroup)

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#34504

Horace Algier<horatio@horatio.net> wrote: 
> 
> Best two free ones ... 
> 1. Usenet Reader for Android DEMO (ken.android.nntpreader)
> 2. NewsGroups (net.piaohong.newsgroup)

Usenet Reader for Android DEMO isn't totally awful and I'd probably pay a couple dollars for the full version if it actually existed somewhere. It appears to have disappeared, though.

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#34507

On Tue, 20 Sep 2016 09:51:04 -0400, Triscal wrote:

> Usenet Reader for Android DEMO isn't totally awful and I'd 
> probably pay a couple dollars for the full version if it actually
> existed somewhere. It appears to have disappeared, though.

Intersting that it disappeared from Google Play.

I unregistered from Google Play a while ago and disabled all the Google
Play services, so I don't use Google Play, so I won't look it up to see if
it's truly gone (I assume others can do that).

Instead I just use my old APKs.

This is another lesson for having an automatic backup program which saves
all the APKs to your flash drive, in case they disappear over time you
still have them.

But, given how lousy the Usenet readers were anyway, you're better off on a
computer. If all you want to do is *read* the newsgroups. then creating a
link on your desktop to http://tinyurl.com/comp-mobile-android works well
enough.

NOTE: I'm not saying a browser link is a Usenet reader; but it works ok to
just catch up on the newsgroups if that is all you want to do.

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#34516

On 9/20/2016 7:11 AM, Horace Algier wrote:

> Instead I just use my old APKs.

When I went from Android 5 to 6, some of my old apps stopped working or
were missing needed parts like menus.

> If all you want to do is *read* the newsgroups. then creating a link
> on your desktop to http://tinyurl.com/comp-mobile-android works well
> enough.

When I'm out and just want to *read* groups on my phone I use Groundhog.
Also reading Google Groups in the Chrome browser works about as well.

> But, given how lousy the Usenet readers were anyway, you're better
> off on a computer.

Agreed.

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#34479

Triscal Islington <trust.your.technolust@mail.ru> wrote:

> Hey folks,
> 
> I'm new to the comp.mobile.* category and realized that, while
> I've been a newsgroup user and an android user for ages I've never
> crossed those over. There are a few decent apps for grabbing
> binaries but all the readers on android that I've tried so far are
> steaming piles of trash. 

There are two types of newsreaders for Android, steaming piles of trash 
and even worse steaming piles of trash.  

I finally decided to read news groups on my PC only.

I know this isn't what you want to hear but it may save you some time, 
don't go looking for an "Android Newsgroup Reader that doesn't suck", 
there aren't any.  

Maybe later?  Let's hope.

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You can set Avast to get rid of this annoying ad. 

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#34484

On Mon, 19 Sep 2016 10:09:14 -0700, XS11E wrote:

> > ---
> > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus
> > software. https://www.avast.com/anti****
 
> You can set Avast to get rid of this annoying ad. 

1. He did that already.
2. Why are you quoting the ad/URL?

-- 
s|b

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#34485

If only there was a port of thunderbird for Android, it does a decent job as a reader. 

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#34506

On Mon, 19 Sep 2016 15:22:51 -0400, Triscal wrote:

> If only there was a port of thunderbird for Android, it does a decent job as a reader.

Ug. Thunderbird? 

The problem with Thunderbird has been discussed many times, as it's a MUA
more than a NNTP newsreader, but *plenty* of people do fine with TB so if
that's what *you* like, have fun.

The argument of the best computer-based newsreader has been discussed very
often, so you might want to look at the archives first.

http://tinyurl.com/news-software-readers

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#34760

On Tue, 20 Sep 2016 14:11:33 +0000, Horace Algier wrote:
> 
> Ug. Thunderbird?
> 
> The problem with Thunderbird has been discussed many times, as it's a
> MUA more than a NNTP newsreader, but *plenty* of people do fine with TB
> so if that's what *you* like, have fun.
> 

I don't user thunderbird on my computer, I use Pan because I can get an 
identical experience on Linux or Windows, but it's harder to imagine a 
port of Pan for Android than a major Mozilla product like Thunderbird 
getting a port.

Thunderbird has plenty of flaws in regards to being a NNTP newsreader but 
it's firmly in the 'not awful' category and it's far and away better than 
anything currently available for Android.



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- Triscal

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