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Elfyn McBratney wrote:

> Not everyone here uses a sparkly gui app (oex) so not everyone will 
> have access to a news-reader. It is however, more likely that they 
> will have access to a mail-client, tho.

Never quite understood the "not have access to a newsreader" argument. 
IIRC many of them are free. For example, I use Netscape for both mail 
and news reading. It's free and works well. Is Outlook Express free? I 
don't know - I hate both Outlook and Outlook Express. Then there's Free 
Agent that I hear about. I assume it's free but I'm not sure. And isn't 
there GNUS... And hasn't anybody ported things like tin and trn to 
Cygwin yet! :-)  IMHO getting a news reading client is no harder than 
getting an email reading client.

YMMV.



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