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Re: Newsgroup reader

From <698839253X6D445TD@nospam.org>
Newsgroups sci.electronics.design
Subject Re: Newsgroup reader
Date 2018-10-07 07:15 +0000
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TTman wrote
>> On 06/10/2018 20:49, 698839253X6D445TD@nospam.org wrote:
>>> TTman wrote:
>>>> Can anyone suggest a sensible newsgroup reader and free feed ? I
>>>> currently use eternal september and thunderbird but I'm having trouble
>>>> migrating to a new machine. It's asking for logins/ pwds which have long
>>>> since been forgotten.
>>>> Ta
>>>
>>> Been using this since 1998 or so when I wrote it:
>>>   http://panteltje.com/panteltje/newsflex/index.html
>>>
>>> Bit like free agent, but then for Linux, with my own view added.
>>> Never understood why people even want to use something else.
>>>
>> Sorry, I need windows platform...
>> 
>> 
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>Sorted. At last.
>


Windows, I forgt to give you my condolances...


2 days ago I copied the database of my NewsFleX Usenet reader to my laptop,
so I can have it all on the move,
took about 10 minutes, all interesting postings (the ones I saved) back to 2006.
It has super fast search in that database too.

panteltje12: ~/.NewsFleX # l
total 1707
-rw-r--r--   1 root root   21971 Jan  9  2006 NewsFleX.xpm
-rw-r--r--   1 root root    2576 Jul 30  2006 newsservers.dat.bak
-rw-r--r--   1 root root       6 Jun 24  2007 pids
drwxr-xr-x   5 root root     184 Apr  1  2008 news.chello.nl/
drwxr-xr-x   5 root root     184 Apr  1  2008 news.isu.edu.tw/
drwxr-xr-x   5 root root     184 Apr  1  2008 textnews.news.cambrium.nl/
-rw-r--r--   1 root root       1 Mar  5  2009 global_custom_head
drwx------   4 root root     112 Dec  6  2009 http/
-rw-r--r--   1 root root    8531 Apr  4  2010 signature
drwxr-xr-x   8 root root     256 Jul  1  2012 localhost/
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root     104 Jul  5  2012 nntp.ioe.org/
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root    1184 Oct  1  2013 setup/
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root     112 Mar 30  2015 news.altopia.com/
drwxr-xr-x   7 root root     232 Aug  1  2017 194.177.96.78/
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root     104 Sep 23  2017 news.cambrium.nl/
drwxr-xr-x   4 root root     160 May 15 11:56 news.tornevall.net/
-rw-r--r--   1 root root    1441 Aug  9 12:14 urls.dat
drwxr-xr-x  10 root root     272 Sep  2 08:12 news.aioe.cjb.net/
drwxr-xr-x 103 root root    2544 Sep  2 08:12 news.albasani.net/
drwxr-xr-x   8 root root     256 Sep  2 08:13 news.ziggo.nl/
-rw-r--r--   1 root root     754 Sep 22 21:33 error_log.txt
drwxr-xr-x  19 root root     520 Oct  1 08:58 freenews.netfront.net/
drwxr-xr-x  10 root root     272 Oct  1 08:58 freetext.usenetserver.com/
drwxr-xr-x 149 root root    3640 Oct  1 08:58 news.datemas.de/
drwxr-xr-x   6 root root     208 Oct  1 08:58 news.eternal-september.org/
drwxr-xr-x  14 root root     368 Oct  1 08:59 news.netfront.net/
drwxr-xr-x 143 root root    3496 Oct  1 08:59 nntp.aioe.org/
drwxr-xr-x 147 root root    3528 Oct  1 08:59 postings/
-rw-r--r--   1 root root       0 Oct  1 08:59 lockfile
-rw-r--r--   1 root root     125 Oct  1 08:59 kernel_version
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 1351868 Oct  1 08:59 fontlist.txt
-rw-r--r--   1 root root    1782 Oct  1 08:59 posting_periods.dat
-rw-r--r--   1 root root     914 Oct  1 18:31 filters.dat
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  121867 Oct  6 21:49 newsservers.dat

panteltje12: ~ # du .NewsFleX
871153  .NewsFleX
871.153,000 bytes
Almost a Giggle-Byte of text.

My Usenet database is sometimes better than google's memory.
Anyways you can see some servers from this, some are dead, for some you need to register.
Changing servers on the fly all the time, just some mouse clicks.
 http://panteltje.com/panteltje/newsflex/index.html

Now I wonder who has that.

Sorry again about MS.

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Newsgroup reader TTman <kraken.sankey@gmail.com> - 2018-10-06 20:19 +0100
  Re: Newsgroup reader <698839253X6D445TD@nospam.org> - 2018-10-06 19:49 +0000
    Re: Newsgroup reader TTman <kraken.sankey@gmail.com> - 2018-10-06 21:38 +0100
      Re: Newsgroup reader TTman <kraken.sankey@gmail.com> - 2018-10-06 21:54 +0100
        Re: Newsgroup reader <698839253X6D445TD@nospam.org> - 2018-10-07 07:15 +0000
          Re: Newsgroup reader Cursitor Doom <curd@notformail.com> - 2018-10-07 09:22 +0000
            Re: Newsgroup reader <698839253X6D445TD@nospam.org> - 2018-10-07 11:07 +0000
              Re: Newsgroup reader gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com - 2018-10-07 08:01 -0700
                Re: Newsgroup reader <698839253X6D445TD@nospam.org> - 2018-10-07 18:58 +0000
              Re: Newsgroup reader Cursitor Doom <curd@notformail.com> - 2018-10-07 15:22 +0000
                Re: Newsgroup reader <698839253X6D445TD@nospam.org> - 2018-10-07 18:58 +0000
                Re: Newsgroup reader Jon Elson <elson@pico-systems.com> - 2018-10-08 13:47 -0500
                Re: Newsgroup reader Cursitor Doom <curd@notformail.com> - 2018-10-09 18:59 +0000
                Re: Newsgroup reader Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com> - 2018-10-10 09:49 -0700
                Re: Newsgroup reader Neon John <no@never.com> - 2018-10-15 19:05 -0400
              Re: Newsgroup reader TTman <kraken.sankey@gmail.com> - 2018-10-07 19:55 +0100
            Re: Newsgroup reader gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com - 2018-10-07 07:59 -0700
              Re: Newsgroup reader Jon Elson <elson@pico-systems.com> - 2018-10-08 13:52 -0500
  Re: Newsgroup reader Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com> - 2018-10-06 17:03 -0700
  Re: Newsgroup reader gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com - 2018-10-06 19:04 -0700
  Re: Newsgroup reader Jon Elson <elson@pico-systems.com> - 2018-10-08 13:42 -0500
  Re: Newsgroup reader Martin Brown <'''newspam'''@nezumi.demon.co.uk> - 2018-10-09 11:00 +0100

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