"Alan Erskine" wrote in message
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The real only alternative is to use a proper binary newsreader.

(I know I'm going to regret this, even before saying it....) How do you
define "proper"?


That's a tricky question to answer until you have experienced a 'proper' or
'dedicated' newsreader. But Outlook Express and Win Live only have partial
support for newsreading so the word 'proper' is appropriate here. A
newsreader should assemble multi posts for you, it should allow multiple
pictures to be saved to your chosen folder and it should allow multiple pics
to be selected from a folder and posted easily. Now I require yEnc
encoding/decoding too so OE is often unsuitable but a dedicated newsreader
handles all this and more.

This was posted using OE6 which is great for text messages and OK for the
odd picture download but if you want to download a series it's a real pain.
I use Xnews, its free and does the job but there are plenty of free
newsreaders out there. Do try one you'll be glad you took the time to learn
how to use it.