OT: Newsreader for Windows

[John Many Jars]

I kind of wrote my own.  I sign my BBS up to the usenet groups I want to
read and it treats them like message boards...

Not exactly Windows (more like Linux) but it's what I use ON Windows to
read Usenet.

On Sun, 4 Apr 2021 at 00:23, Maciej W. Rozycki via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 1 Apr 2021, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote:
>
> > There is probably also the option of using the TUI news readers in / via
> > Windows Services for Linux (?is that the proper name for /today/?).
>
>  I have never used that port myself, but there's PC-Alpine worth
> considering, which I believe uses native Windows networking services and
> also has a classic touch to it.  Compilation instructions are here:
> <http://alpine.x10host.com/alpine/alpine-info/build/oldwindows.html>, or
> check: <http://alpine.x10host.com/alpine/release/src/alpine-2.24.zip> or:
> <http://alpine.x10host.com/alpine/release/src/alpine-2.24_32bits.zip> for
> 64-bit and 32-bit x86 binaries respectively (checksums are published at
> <http://alpine.x10host.com/>).
>
>  Naturally it handles both e-mail and news, and you can cross-post if you
> feel like.
>
>  FWIW,
>
>   Maciej
>


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