Post by Kathy MorganPost by Darkimehow in gods name do you download files off this damn antiquated form of
file sharing. pictues are fine, they appear in the message, but movie and
audio files have got me stumped. i'm using outlook express. is there a
good newsgroup software that i can use to do this, or will OE do it for me
As Sylfest suggested in response to your other message, OE is not a good
program for this. In fact, OE is not much good for anything. It is so
bad that many people "kill" all messages posted used OE. It's free and
easy to (mis)use for discussion groups, but it's not well-suited for
binaries groups and it posts such badly formatted messages that other
people hate it. If you really feel you must use it, please patch it by
using the free program OE QuoteFix (URL in my .sig).
If you decide to use OE to download movie and audio files, you'll need
to select all parts of the message, then follow the instructions
provided in the "Help" files for OE. (I think this involves
right-clicking and rearranging into the proper order then combining and
saving the file and finding the proper programs to decode the files.)
See <http://www.newsreaders.com/> which has some reviews and links to
many different newsreaders for all platforms, including many that are
much better suited to downloading binaries than OE. See also the GNKSA
site (URL in my .sig).
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