On Wed, Apr 07, 1999 at 01:08:06PM +0200, Tom Berger wrote:
> On Die, 06 Apr 1999, you wrote: / Am Die, 06 Apr 1999 schrieben Sie:
> > Tom Berger wrote:
> > >
> > > [snip]
> > > Yep, it sucks. <RANT> "The Network OS", pah! Let's face it: either the
> > > readers are crappy, or occult to use, or both... I am sick of keeping up a
> > > whole WinNT installation just to run Agent32 (yes, I *have* tried
> > > WinE).</RANT> BTW: no, I don't want to start a newsreader war here :).
> >
> > Maybe you meant the Network Server OS? :)
> >
> > I'll grant you that news readers on Linux suck, and suck bigtime. You
> > know they suck when Netscape News IS your news client. I just haven't
> > been able to find anything else that works the way I want it to (inline
> > images, next/prev buttons, decent speed and interface). For CLI, I tend
> > to stick with slrn since it's pretty fast over my dialup line.
> >
>
> Give news peruser a try. Still has some bugs, but seems to
> be quite promising (at least it works without hangs and crashes...).
> (http://users.imag.net/~lon.jbailie/peruser-index.html).
> Well, guess it's still a long way to go for Linux to make it on the
> desktop. An offline, agent-like newsreader is by no means an exotic need
> and the Usenet isn't an utopia to Linux. There is a dozen of at
> least acceptible graphical nr's for Redmond. If I would make a list of
> nr's I tried so far in Linux, there is also a dozen. But they all suck,
> with krn being the worst by far (that 'app' should really be relegated to
> the 'non-beta' module. It's a nerve!). But I think we are drifting OT
> here...(would be another nice newsgroup, though:
> linux.recovery.newsreaders ;-)
Thanks for the tip, I'll give News Peruser a try.
As for the "worst of the worst" category, you obviously haven't tried xrn.
You'd still be recovering from the battle scars and waking up with night
sweats. :)
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Steve Philp
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