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| Subject | Re: Usenet reader |
|---|---|
| Message-Id | <20241107.181444.fab4ee7c@mixmin.net> |
| Date | 2024-11-07 18:14 +0000 |
| From | D <noreply@mixmin.net> |
| References | <vgiq31$2gihe$1@paganini.bofh.team> |
| Newsgroups | comp.mobile.android |
| Organization | dizum.com - The Internet Problem Provider |
On Thu, 7 Nov 2024 16:32:33 +0000, Jim the Geordie <jim@jimXscott.co.uk> wrote: >Remind me. Is there a decent free alternative to Phonews (free)? >I'm sure I used to have one on my old phone, but nothing on Play Store >rings any bells. >Phonews is fine except I cannot reply from it without parting with money. for accessing usenet newsgroups it's (obviously) always best to use a dedicated newsreader with comprehensive scoring features, but for convenient access using any web browser, the newsgrouper website is really excellent, because it "piggybacks" on two major news servers news:news.blueworldhosting.com, and news:news.eternal-september.org, which carry tens of thousands of newsgroups, with article retention on average twenty-one years thanks to blueworldhosting's newsserver e.g., this newsgroup https://newsgrouper.org.uk/comp.mobile.android, and browse https://newsgrouper.org.uk/comp.mobile.android/search to find articles using search criteria, or find any article spooled in any of about forty-five thousand newsgroups by searching message-id https://newsgrouper.org.uk/ . . . it can filter "from" headers, too android newsreaders may improve with increased user interest in the nntp format (e.g., a brand new version of 40tude dialog for android would be awesome, and mozilla could make thunderbird more newsgroup friendly, but that seems unlikely given each update makes it worse); this seems counterintuitive, since firefox updates are usually less troublesome for users (some users might disagree), so why is t-bird so rife with user complaints? imo, it's just not very user-friendly and thus far, "thunderbird for android" has no usenet functionality (using Tor Browser 14.0.1) https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/mobile/
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Usenet reader Jim the Geordie <jim@jimXscott.co.uk> - 2024-11-07 16:32 +0000
Re: Usenet reader AJL <noemail@none.com> - 2024-11-07 16:59 +0000
Re: Usenet reader AJL <noemail@none.com> - 2024-11-07 18:40 +0000
Re: Usenet reader Andrews <andrews@spam.net> - 2024-11-08 03:08 +0000
Re: Usenet reader AJL <noemail@none.com> - 2024-11-08 05:02 +0000
Re: Usenet reader Dave Royal <dave@dave123royal.com> - 2024-11-07 17:14 +0000
Re: Usenet reader D <noreply@mixmin.net> - 2024-11-07 18:14 +0000
Re: Usenet reader AJL <noemail@none.com> - 2024-11-07 12:24 -0700
Re: Usenet reader Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2024-11-07 19:47 +0000
Re: Usenet reader "W. Greenhouse" <wgreenhouse@tilde.club> - 2024-11-08 12:47 +0000
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