"Jose" wrote in message
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I use Netscape, built on the same engine. No setting to skip crossposts
you've read. I'm open to suggestions for newsreaders with this (highly
desirable) feature.

Hmm. Well, I'm surprised it's not in the Mozilla-based newsreaders. After
all, that feature is one (of just a handful) that I, and probably most
people, would consider essential to any "real" newsreader. That is, without
it, you're just a toy newsreader. For all the "our open-source is the
best!" hurrahs that always seem to go around, you'd think they'd be talking
about something that wasn't a toy. Guess not.

As far as newsreaders that do have the feature go, well...Outlook Express
has it. Forte's Agent and Free Agent both have it (you can get Free Agent
for, duh, free). I've never used the 4titude newsreader, but surely it has
it also. Any command-line-based newsreader (e.g. rn an a *nix system) would
have it as well.

Basically, any REAL newsreader should include that feature. Lots of people
will swear up and down that Outlook Express sucks rocks, but it's just as
useful a newsreader as any other. I've never seen a single newsreader that
does everything I want it to, but OE does everything that I need a
newsreader to do 90% of the time, which is at least as capable as any other
newsreader I've used.

I do recommend you try the other brands though. There's nothing like
personal experience to reassure you that you've made the right choice, and
you may actually prefer one of the others anyway. I've tried several of the
ones I mention above, and OE does what I need with minimal fuss.

Agent, in particular, has some features that OE doesn't, but is missing some
features OE has, and at least last time I used it (more than five years ago)
it had a butt-ugly UI, making it hard to figure out how to actually do
something even if it was supported, and didn't handle suscribing to multiple
newsservers as gracefully as OE does. It also was much slower than OE, but
I'm not going to bother getting into that again...it really seems to get
Larry's shorts in a knot.

For me, that made OE my preferred choice. For other people, they may be
more interested in features Agent has and OE doesn't.

Pete