On 17 Feb 2005 07:07:06 -0800, "Ed" wrote:

Since my last post on news reader, Ive been trying getting the news
groups updates via email from aol. It seems that getting it via google
into aol email, some of the posts seems to not show up.
Being new to this news group stuff, can someone explain to me how a
news group reader works ? Are there any free downloads programs? I like
getting it in my email but AOL and Google has no filters available and
seems i dont get all the posts.

If you are just using AOL for email access, then no.

Free Agent is a good email/newsreader - simple to set up and it will
do some tricks others won't.

Mozilla Thunderbird is also a good email/newsreader, but it does have
some rather interesting bugs which only appear when dealing with
Outlook Express. The ordinary guy probably won't notice them, but
nimrods like me will find them quickly.

Hey, it's still in development.

Those are two stable newsreader programs out there. There are some
others, but they are mainly for geeks - specifically Xnews which is
about as nerdy as they come.

I think Harry's point about dumping AOL is very important - AOL sin't
the best provider out there.

Good luck.

Later,

Tom