I've had Firefox crash on me just about every time I've run it, so I don't feel the love enough to try Thunderbird. I was looking for something a bite more freeware, though -- my fixed income already seems broken at the end of each month, so expending anything on software right now isn't in the budget.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Jfw [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brad > Martin via Jfw > Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2014 10:57 PM > To: The Jaws for Windows support list. > Subject: Re: Usenet News Readers Under Windows 7 > > Hmmm, I honestly don't think Thunderbird has ever crashed on me. I > investigated a little; it looks like they still make Forte Agent, but > I've never used it to know if it works with JAWS, and it's not free; it > costs $29.99. It's an old program that's been around since 1994. We > used to have clients who used it under Windows 3.1 back in the day. Now > it's Windows 8 compatible. www.forteinc.com for more info. > > Brad > > On 5/15/2014 10:15 PM, Nicole Massey via Jfw wrote: > > Yeah, Thunderbird and Firefox crash too often for my tastes. > > Yes, there are several great newsgroups that have traffic. In fact, a > lot of > > them have less annoying stuff on them now that they require a bit > more to > > access them again. > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Jfw [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brad > >> Martin via Jfw > >> Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2014 8:57 PM > >> To: The Jaws for Windows support list. > >> Subject: Re: Usenet News Readers Under Windows 7 > >> > >> Wow! I had forgotten about Usenet. Are there still active newsgroups > >> out there? Dumb question; I guess there are if you're trying to read > >> them. > >> > >> Honestly, I haven't used Usenet since Internet Mail and News for > >> Windows 95. (Internet Mail and News was the program that became > Outlook > >> Express.) Is there a particular reason you're avoiding Thunderbird? > I > >> love the way it handles my mail. > >> > >> Brad > >> > >> > >> On 5/15/2014 10:27 AM, Nicole Massey via Jfw wrote: > >>> Morning folks, > >>> I'm looking for a good program to read newsgroups under Windows 7. > I > >> don't want to use WLM or Thunderbird to do it, and it needs to work > >> well with Jaws 15 and I'd prefer that it also support multiple NNTP > >> providers and accounts. Anyone got any reliable suggestions? > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Jfw mailing list > >>> [email protected] > >>> http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com > >>> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Jfw mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Jfw mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com > > > > -- > Brad Martin > [email protected] > www.formyfriends.org > www.facebook.com/ucoupons > www.upromise.com/guest/2248989069 > > > _______________________________________________ > Jfw mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list [email protected] http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com
