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What programs can I use to read Usenet News?
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My favorite Usenet news reader software is Agent. Agent is available in both paid-license and freeware-license versions. Actually, it is the same program — the difference is whether you have purchased a license key or not. If you don't want to purchase a license, Agent will revert to the freeware version after 30 days.
If you are running Windows, you already have one program that can do Usenet -- Outlook Express. Start Outlook Express, then from the menu, pick Tools, Accounts... Select the "News" tab and fill in your ISP's news server (Cox's news servers have names like news.east.cox.net, news.central.cox.net and news.west.cox.net; your ISP probably has a similar naming system.)
If you use Mozilla Thunderbird or Opera, you can use them to read news. They have similar configuration systems to that of Outlook Express. Outlook, on the other hand, does not do Usenet news -- it hands that task off to Outlook Express.
If you are in the Linux world, you have many, many more options.
And, finally, you can always use Google Groups to read Usenet. Google Groups is not Usenet, but it includes ways to read, post and, more importantly, easily search Usenet for information.
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