Please could you point me in the right direction Im very new to the Newsgroup scene and wondered which Newsreader to go for have looked at Grabbit is this any good and if so are there any FAQs on grabbit or any others that you can reccomend your help is much appreciated

If you already use outlook express for email then it's easy to configure it for reading newsgroups. If you want a non-micro$oft reader then Xnews (http://www.webattack.com/get/xnews.shtml) is a good freeware one. Quite simple to setup and the online help is all you need to get started.

The best is Agent! There is a free version,not quite as many features called Freeagent.I have had the registered version since 94.You pay once,all upgrades are free.It was just upgraded a couple of months ago. It also handles "y" encoding.

I like Neswsbin and i know a fair few people who use newsreactor. Outlook express will only let you read posts and you won't be able to download yENC stuff. HTH

xnews is a very good one

prefer agent myself.

heres a little agent & xnews newbie guide to get u started:

www.slyck.com/newsgroups.html