In a message of 11-05-1900, MAULVI BAKAR wrote re: HOW CAN I READ INTERNET F
-> Actually, you can use Netscape to read usenet offline...if you use
-> changi. Changi is a news server you can run on your machine, feeding
-> it from your ISP. Just point Netscape (or any other nntp client) at
-> changi through the loopback interface (127.0.0.1).
MB> There's one drawback though, setting up changi is not for
MB> the faint hearted..  I know, I tried setting it up one.  It
MB> works finally  ;)
So have I. What version of changi did you try?  Getting the older versions 
(ie, v0.9 series) running was rather a challenge, but since v1.0 the install 
has become quite straightforward.
MB> But reading via Netscape/2 and Changi is a
MB> waste of space I would say.. you are having 2 copies of every
MB> single usenet posting in your harddisk. And most usenet
MB> postings are spams anyway..
Why would you have two copies of every message?  That certainly doesn't 
happen here and I've been using changi for about two years now.  And changi 
allows you to filter incoming messages so you can avoid a great deal of spam 
with judicious use of your filter.cf file.   Just a couple lines like this 
will filter out the  lion's share of spam:
D://:Newsgroups: *,*,*,*
D://:*CASH*
D://:*!!!*
D://:*$$*
D://:*MAKE MONEY*
MB> I just wonder..  Does anyone knows what other Newsreader is
MB> there for the native OS/2 other than Netscape, PMNews and
MB> Neologic/EmTec News??
Sure.  There's plenty.  NR/2 comes with OS/2 and does an adequate job.  Web 
Explorer can read news.  There's ProNews in wide beta currently that sounds 
quite capable.  MR/2 can read both news and mail.  SLRN and YARN are both 
available for OS/2, as are rn and trn ported from Unix.  If you're willing to 
run a Windows newsreader there's several of those that work also.  Free Agent 
seems quite popular and I'm sure there's others.
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