| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name
 | Date | Lines | 
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| 2752.1 |  | SMURF::PBECK | Paul Beck | Wed Jan 22 1997 10:52 | 1 | 
| 2752.2 |  | skylab.zko.dec.com::FISHER | Gravity: Not just a good idea.  It's the law! | Wed Jan 22 1997 13:18 | 3 | 
| 2752.3 |  | AXEL::FOLEY | http://axel.zko.dec.com | Wed Jan 22 1997 13:37 | 5 | 
| 2752.4 |  | TUXEDO::FRIDAY | DCE: The real world is distributed too. | Wed Jan 22 1997 15:25 | 60 | 
| 2752.5 |  | SMURF::PBECK | Paul Beck | Wed Jan 22 1997 16:43 | 4 | 
| 2752.6 | Not Netscape Neither | TALLIS::KOCH | Kevin Koch TAY1-2 DTN227-4043 | Fri Jan 31 1997 09:32 | 4 | 
|  | Netscape dooesn't have killfiles either and when I finally got through to 
a human being to tell them how essential this is, she didn't care.  I bet 
nobody in the Windows space has used a real news reader and even knows 
what kill files are.
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| 2752.7 | Don't judge Windows newsreaders based on the browsers | SMURF::PBECK | Paul Beck | Fri Jan 31 1997 10:37 | 9 | 
|  |     Lots of Windows-based newsreaders have killfiles. The newsreaders in
    web browsers a pretty much minimal check-the-box tack-ons and not
    worth serious consideration.
    
    WinVN supports filters that allow you to mark "read" based on author
    or subject (but doesn't always hide all "read" articles). Agent (the
    shareware version, not Free Agent) has killfiles, as does Gravity
    (another commercial reader). Look at the listings in 
    http://www.windows95.com/apps/news.html for some pointers.
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| 2752.8 |  | WRKSYS::TATOSIAN | The Compleat Tangler | Sat Feb 01 1997 00:32 | 15 | 
|  |     >I bet nobody in the Windows space has used a real news reader and even
    >knows what kill files are.
    
    Classic case of uninformed bigotry...a pity...
    
    At the minimum, the following news agents support killfiles:
    
    - Agent 
    - NewsXpress 
    - WinVN 
    - News Binary Extractor
    
    Then there's a whole set of agents that provide filters (ie: only show 
    me "this stuff"). Too many to list...
    
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| 2752.9 |  | SMURF::PBECK | Paul Beck | Mon Feb 03 1997 09:18 | 4 | 
|  |     Judging Windows newsreaders based on Netscape or Internet Explorer
    is like judging cell phone technology based on the $5 phone they
    give away with the cheapest deal-du-jour...
    
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