ok, after getting fed up with either the news.povray.org web interface or our proxy, I got to finally try out some newsgroups clients.

At home I installed Mozilla Thunderbird and it's fine enough for the task.  Here at work, I tried to install it, but our admins blocked downloads
of executables.  That's ok, because I discovered it was still possible to install it by ftp, they seemingly were only aware of how to block http
requests.  Today, though, I sadly found out that they now blocked ftp as well, so I felt out of options.  except...

except that I have the hateful Lotus Notes here.  Hate it, but found out that it does newsgroups as well.  Well, here I am!  does it look good to you?
if not, say it that I'll drop the damned thing altogether... :D