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| From | "tdk" <forum.tdk@squte.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.misc |
| Subject | Re: Fast lightweight web-based newsreader |
| Date | 2014-03-04 13:14 -0600 |
| Organization | solani.org |
| Message-ID | <4926#16150@usenet.squte.com> (permalink) |
| References | <bnlc3eFteoU1@mid.individual.net> |
> and is not set up for quick searching There's a search box on the 404 page: http://squte.com/404.html, but maybe there should be one on the main page. > scanning through the Usenet group hierarchy By scanning do you mean being able to enter a group name and have it autocompete? or something else? > So, I kept looking for free tools that would let me do this efficiently I think the nicest one that has a large range of groups is http://narkive.com, it also allows posting. The owner answers questions on news.software.readers. <rant> The problem with this site is the same as most web newsreaders, they try to force usenet into a web-forum mould. The best example of this is threading. On usenet posts are highly threaded, and sub-threads often topic-drift or rot into flame-wars. Good desktop usenet readers let you ignore sub-threads or mark them as read. But web portals typically show all the posts in a thread in one long chronological list - like web forums - which makes it hard to skip or follow a sub-thread. Another problem is filtering out noise, any popular group attracts trolls and becomes unreadable without some kind of filtering, but AFAIK no web reader even allows killfiles and only one does any real filtering. <end rant> -- regards ~tdk View this thread at http://squte.com/node/4926#comment-16150
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Fast lightweight web-based newsreader wjwlsn <ibillwilson@gmail.com> - 2014-03-04 02:02 -0500
Re: Fast lightweight web-based newsreader Andy Burns <usenet.feb2014@adslpipe.co.uk> - 2014-03-04 07:23 +0000
Re: Fast lightweight web-based newsreader wjwlsn <ibillwilson@gmail.com> - 2014-03-04 02:56 -0500
Re: Fast lightweight web-based newsreader RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-04 09:41 +0000
Re: Fast lightweight web-based newsreader Stephen Thomas Cole <usenet@stephenthomascole.com> - 2014-03-04 19:55 +0000
Re: Fast lightweight web-based newsreader Peter Percival <peterxpercival@hotmail.com> - 2014-03-04 12:42 +0000
Re: Fast lightweight web-based newsreader "Dirk T. Verbeek" <dverbeek@xs4all.nl> - 2014-03-04 14:16 +0100
Re: Fast lightweight web-based newsreader wjwlsn <ibillwilson@gmail.com> - 2014-03-04 10:01 -0500
Re: Fast lightweight web-based newsreader RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-05 12:44 +0000
Re: Fast lightweight web-based newsreader "tdk" <forum.tdk@squte.com> - 2014-03-07 19:29 -0600
Re: Fast lightweight web-based newsreader Anthony G <anthonyg@invalid.sdf.nospam.org> - 2014-03-08 02:49 +0000
Re: Fast lightweight web-based newsreader Whiskers <catwheezel@operamail.com> - 2014-03-08 15:40 +0000
Re: Fast lightweight web-based newsreader Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-03-04 17:30 +0100
Re: Fast lightweight web-based newsreader Whiskers <catwheezel@operamail.com> - 2014-03-04 17:14 +0000
Re: Fast lightweight web-based newsreader "tdk" <forum.tdk@squte.com> - 2014-03-04 13:14 -0600
Re: Fast lightweight web-based newsreader "wjwlsn" <ibillwilson@gmail.com> - 2014-03-07 15:41 -0600
Re: Fast lightweight web-based newsreader "tdk" <forum.tdk@squte.com> - 2014-03-07 19:10 -0600
Re: Fast lightweight web-based newsreader Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2014-03-05 15:59 +1100
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