Leonard Blaisdell wrote:

> In article .net>,
> Blinky the Shark > wrote:
>
>> Unfortinately that's more work with Agent than with many other clients,
>> because Agent itself can't do it and you have to spoon-feed Agent with
>> pre-filtered groups from a local proxy/server that you run on your machine.
>
> What would be the most easily configurable solution you could come up
> with using Windows and considering a person's willingness to change
> client and server and a weakness with the command line? I'm curious
> because I have no experience with Windows clients. Just off the top of
> that flat doll-eyed head of yours.

Win news clients with GUIs? Xnews, Dialog, perhaps Gravity (although I
have less experience with the latter). Xnews is my primary Win news
client; from my evaluations (and I have seven or eight clients installed,
configured, and usable at the click of an icon) Dialog is pretty close to
Xnews, and my admittedly less time with Gravity left me with a pretty good
feeling that it. I would avoid the ones with weak filtering, because you
have to pre-chew your feed for them; i.e., you have to use a local server
or proxy between your external feed and the client, to do the filtering
tha the client can't. An example is TB; while I recommend it over OE (as
I would a three-legged hound with mange) its *news* filtering is almost
worthless (oddly, its mail filtering is okay). If you make the move, keep
this in the back of your head: news.software.readers It's the de facto
support group for Xnews and it gets plenty of Dialog traffic; there are
experts in both there; it's a very good group. And filtering info for
your choice is probably available, of course, at the UIP.


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