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Reading these newsgroups

What do people use to read these newsgroups? I have been
using my web browser (IE) and pointing it
to "http://msdn.microsoft. com/newsgroups/". The
experience doing this has been pretty much awful. Is
there something better? I do not want to use Outlook -- I
do not trust it to refrain from opening executables.

If anyone is interested, some of the problems with using
IE with the MSDN newsgroups are as follows. The display
doesn't respect font sizes, so things overwrite each other
and don't fit. I have to scroll around constantly. 75%
of the screen is taken up by stuff other than the post I'm
reading, so even on a 1600x1200 display I have to scroll
even to read short messages. THe width of the new-post
box is so small that it can't handle more than about 40
characters in width. This box can't be resized. The
search function is constantly broken (right now it says
something like "System error! Contact system
administator!" whenever I try to search for anything. I
think it got confused after I switched newsgroups while I
was waiting for it to finish a search.
Jul 21 '05
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It seems that it is not possible to get it anymore...
Site is down: www.microplanet.com

José

"Jon Skeet" <sk***@pobox.co m> a écrit dans le message de
news:MP******** *************** *@news.microsof t.com...
José Joye <jose.joye@__No _SPam__bluewin_ _maPS_oN__.ch> wrote:
Which News viewer do you use?


Gravity - it's now free, but I originally paid for it. Lovely bit of
software.

(Do a Google search for "Tom's Gravity Pages" to download it.)

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Jul 21 '05 #11
José Joye <jose.joye@__No _SPam__bluewin_ _maPS_oN__.ch> wrote:
It seems that it is not possible to get it anymore...
Site is down: www.microplanet.com


Microplanet's site is down, but did you try the Google search I
suggested? It works fine from here...

--
Jon Skeet - <sk***@pobox.co m>
http://www.pobox.com/~skeet
If replying to the group, please do not mail me too
Jul 21 '05 #12
hoops...
I missed the last part of your message ;-)
José

"Jon Skeet" <sk***@pobox.co m> a écrit dans le message de
news:MP******** *************** *@news.microsof t.com...
José Joye <jose.joye@__No _SPam__bluewin_ _maPS_oN__.ch> wrote:
It seems that it is not possible to get it anymore...
Site is down: www.microplanet.com


Microplanet's site is down, but did you try the Google search I
suggested? It works fine from here...

--
Jon Skeet - <sk***@pobox.co m>
http://www.pobox.com/~skeet
If replying to the group, please do not mail me too
Jul 21 '05 #13

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