Please recommend a good newsreader?

[Gordon]

OK, using your "logic", you should post your messages in thousands of
newsgroup, thereby guaranteeing that you get a rapid response that
will be viewable later by the maximum number of people.

The Op wasn't far off - he posted the same message to windowsxp.basic plus
another 5 groups different from the ones he posted this one to - and at
least three of those were completely irrelevant!

 

[Asher_N]

Joe, you're an idiot. Cross posting allows for different people to see
the same version of the messages. How is different individuals reading
different newsgroups researching and responding any more of a 'waste of
time' than many people reading 1 newgroup doing the same?

I respectfully disagree with your assertion that it wastes nobody's
time to
cross-post a message requesting aid. There are many good, caring
people
who populate forums such as microsoft.public.outlook,
microsoft.public.word,
and microsoft.public.public.frontpage.client who do pause, research
your
problem, and respond to you from within in their favorite forums...not
realizing
someone else was doing the same research and writing similar advice
from
within another forum.

Cross-posting is nasty and selfish. It reveals a cross-poster as not
caring
about the burdens he/she places on others.

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"

In

Although there are perhaps irrelevent groups included in the
crosspost, it doesn't exactly "waste anyone's time" to see something
and not reply to it, now, does it?
Crossposting is better than multiposting. Although, yes, it should
be to a small handful of relevant groups.