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Dave wrote:

My dads pretty old and worked on airplanes during WW2 and worked for
Curtis prior to that.
he's not very computer literate.

Whats a good news reader for somebody like that?

Thanks

Dave

Newswatcher. http://www.smfr.org/mtnw/

It is freeware and is easy to use. You make up a list of groups that you
wish to view, and it keeps track of read and unread.