news readers for linux

news readers for linux

[Christopher Moore]

I'm seeking advice/opinions on a news reader for linux.  The other day I
tried trn but found it extremely slow and difficult to understand.  I
wouldn't mind spending a couple days reading the man page if the program
were worth the learning curve.  

As much as I don't like Windowws, Outlook Express has a nice news reading
facility.  But I'd much prefer to use something in linux.

Thanks for your input.
Chris
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Re: news readers for linux

[Alex Snow]

I've heard that slrn is good.

Explorer has caused a general protection fault in module kernel32.dll. I'm
sick of Winblows!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Moore" <christopher.h.moore@verizon.net>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 3:53 PM
Subject: news readers for linux


> I'm seeking advice/opinions on a news reader for linux.  The other day I
> tried trn but found it extremely slow and difficult to understand.  I
> wouldn't mind spending a couple days reading the man page if the program
> were worth the learning curve.
>
> As much as I don't like Windowws, Outlook Express has a nice news reading
> facility.  But I'd much prefer to use something in linux.
>
> Thanks for your input.
> Chris
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Re: news readers for linux

[Igor Gueths]

Hi. Pine works fairly well as a newsreader. However the problem arises
when you hit a binary group and you have many parts of a file in multiple
posts. Have you tried tin?

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On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Christopher Moore wrote:

> I'm seeking advice/opinions on a news reader for linux.  The other day I
> tried trn but found it extremely slow and difficult to understand.  I
> wouldn't mind spending a couple days reading the man page if the program
> were worth the learning curve.
>
> As much as I don't like Windowws, Outlook Express has a nice news reading
> facility.  But I'd much prefer to use something in linux.
>
> Thanks for your input.
> Chris
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Re: news readers for linux

[Geoff Shang]

Hi:

You have lots of choices.  I actually use pine to read news, since I use it
to read mail and having the two integrated is nice.  But a standalone
newsreader is probably going to have mroe features.

You can even read news with lynx if you want to - news:groupname as long as
you've specified an NNTP server in the lynx configuration file.

Geoff.


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Re: news readers for linux

[Edward L. Barnes]

Chris, you could most certainly use Pine to read news and I know others 
on list have used mutt too though I have no personal experience with 
regard to using mutt to read news groups. Hth. Ed
On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, 
Christopher Moore wrote:

> I'm seeking advice/opinions on a news reader for linux.  The other day I
> tried trn but found it extremely slow and difficult to understand.  I
> wouldn't mind spending a couple days reading the man page if the program
> were worth the learning curve.  
> 
> As much as I don't like Windowws, Outlook Express has a nice news reading
> facility.  But I'd much prefer to use something in linux.
> 
> Thanks for your input.
> Chris
> 

Re: news readers for linux

[Doug Lawlor]

There is an NNTP patch for mutt which you can find at
http://mutt.kiev.ua/download/mutt-1.4/patch-1.4.vvv.nntp.gz.  If you
don't mind compiling sources grab the mutt 1.4 sources and this patch
and give it a try.  It works quite nice.  I use it here.  


Doug

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Re: news readers for linux

[Christopher Moore]

Doug,
Thanks for the tip.  I patched and built mutt-1.4 and am able to access
news.  I need to play with some of the config settings, but I think it will
work very well once I figure out which group I want to subscribe <grin>

Chris
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Re: news readers for linux

[Erik Heil]

have you taken a look at rn?  TRN is basically a threaded newsreader.  Then
of course their's tin, which is pretty nice.  I however use trn and tin,
even pine.  Depends on what kind of mood I'm in.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Moore" <christopher.h.moore@verizon.net>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 3:53 PM
Subject: news readers for linux


> I'm seeking advice/opinions on a news reader for linux.  The other day I
> tried trn but found it extremely slow and difficult to understand.  I
> wouldn't mind spending a couple days reading the man page if the program
> were worth the learning curve.
>
> As much as I don't like Windowws, Outlook Express has a nice news reading
> facility.  But I'd much prefer to use something in linux.
>
> Thanks for your input.
> Chris
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Re: news readers for linux

[Toby Fisher]

On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Christopher Moore wrote:

> I'm seeking advice/opinions on a news reader for linux.  The other day I
> tried trn but found it extremely slow and difficult to understand.  I
> wouldn't mind spending a couple days reading the man page if the program
> were worth the learning curve.

Personally, I use SLRN, I like the way it does stuff, but I have also used
Pine on this system, especially now that it supports threading, I would
never countenance using a reader that doesn't have this facility.
The main advantage that SLRN has over Pine though is its kill file, very
nice indeed, though I suppose you can get around this if you use leafnode
and the filtering rules it contains.

> As much as I don't like Windowws, Outlook Express has a nice news reading
> facility.  But I'd much prefer to use something in linux.

Errrrrrrm?!?  Outlook Express news reading, nice?  Oh well, each to his
own, I suppose.

Cheers.

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