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Noel Paton had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

"bigb" wrote in message
news:2006011712291650073%spudman@potatocom...
I am a Mac user who is trying to help a PC (IBM) friend get on the
newsgroup circuit. I would like your advice on what is the best
newsgroup reader/uploader software for him to use. After all, you
guys are the real experts. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks.

Outlook Express works perfectly well for most groups - and the Help
files are better than the average! (and it comes for no extra charge
with every copy of Windows since Win98)

Additionally...

If the friend is to use this for file transfers in the alt.binary groups or
wants easy yEnc support then there's a chunck of software called GrabIt
available free from: http://www.shemes.com/ I've found that when doing
multi-part downloads it's simply the easiest way to go.

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Galen - MS MVP - Windows (Shell/User & IE)
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