On 2011-10-01 01:13:20 -0700, Jim Breckenridge said:

On 11-09-30 8:17 PM, Glen in Orlando wrote:

All unreadable with Thunderbird as well

Jim, for your Mac, you can try the free MTNW
http://www.smfr.org/mtnw/downloading.html
or the commercial client Unison.
http://www.panic.com/unison/

Both are full featured usenet clients which handle encoding issues
without any trouble.

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Regards,

Savageduck