[BrianR]

I'm not sure if this belongs here or not but whatever.

I have gotten fed up with Outlook Express 5. It seems to lock up my computer with glee and nothing I do can change it.

I've switched to Eudora for my email client, but now I need something to replace the newsreader. Most of what I've found so far seems to be oriented towards the kind of person who spends a considerable amount of time posting pictures to the alt.binaries newsgroups and an equal or greater amount of time searching and downloading other pictures from all over. I do not.

I've been test-driving Xnews and NewsPro. So far I like Xnews better but it still has a few bad points.

I'm looking for one that will download the list of newsgroups upon first launch and SAVE IT! Then, allow me to set up a folder so that I can list my subscribed newsgroups SEPERATELY from the big honkin' list of all. Next, one that will download the messages in my chosen group, display the headers in a list and let me double-click (or something intuitive) to read those that I choose. A <NEXT> button is needed here so I can read the thread and not have to return to the list of headers and select the next one over and over. an option to combine and decode files that come in multiple messages (such as, ahem!, software files) without having to select five thousand messages and order them in a window the size of a postage stamp. Lastly, it has to run under Windoze 98 v4.1

I know all about the benefits of Linux and GNU/EMACS and someday I'll have a newer computer so I can run a real operating system. I'll accept that someone will tell me to switch but with three non-literate people in the house who share the computer with me, it's just not an option right now. They have enough trouble telling the taskbar from the status line, never mind a "button" from a "link".

Ideas, anyone?

Brian