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In article ,
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On Mon, 07 Jan 2013 13:35:29 -0500, wrote:

On Mon, 07 Jan 2013 12:20:22 -0500, ESAD wrote:

On 1/7/13 12:03 PM, wrote:

Well, perhaps if you weren't using a 19th Century news reader like Forte
Agent...

There are a number of reasons for using a simpler news reader than
Outlook or some other bloatware.
For one thing, it runs off a thumb drive and will execute on any
windoze platform without actually being installed. That is handy if
you have more than one machine.

You must follow some usenet groups other than rec.boats, because
carrying a thumb drive to be able to read this one from any windoze
machine seems a waste of time and effort, considering the lack of
content here.

Facebook, interestingly, updates itself to its users no matter what
machine they are on. If I visit with my iMac and then the next day visit
with my tablet, my stuff to read is just where I left it after I logged
out with the iMac...the old stuff I've already read is way down at the
bottom of the list. Of course, no one really gives a damn about usenet
anymore, so development ceased ages ago.

Yes I follow several text usenet groups and a number of binary groups.

If you don't keep your headers updated on some of the binary groups it
becomes very cumbersome. Alt.binary.e-book.technical is very active.
That is a great source for government papers and technical documents.
It is amazing what is out there.

Can stuff be downloaded to a kindle from the e-book groups?

Probably, but not by people that are too stupid to cut and paste URL's.