Sailaway wrote in :

I am sure there is something I should know about to read these, but I
haven't a clue... Any suggestions? Thanks


Your new client doesn't decode Yenc encoding. Usenet only uses 7 bits, not
8, so encoding schemes were invented to convert 8 bit binary data into 7
bit text which could be posted. Yenc is the latest, most popular code
being used.

Go get Xnews from http://xnews.newsguy.com
It's free. The instructions are on the website.

It downloads the message list (limit that to around 200,000 messages which
is almost too many files to look through). Then, click the Q column to
mark the files you want to download. (Xnews groups all the messages in a
file into a single line on the message list for you.)

You can click more while it's downloading others.

You just have the wrong client.....like Outlook Express which sucks.