Re: [expert] Is there a linux offline news reader

[Bernhard Rosenkraenzer]

On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, Erik Wasser wrote:

> Reading news "offline" is very uncommon under linux and similiar OS.
> Normally you install a local newsserver and read the news from localhost.
> My favorite for doing it in this way is inn (newsserver) and tin (for
> reading)

For a beginner, I prefer leafnode over inn - it's easier and doesn't have
any real disadvantages on a small system.

> IIRC there is no real offline reader for linux (or unix), but I don't have
> an eye on this kind of development, so maybe I am wrong. B-)

I think peruser (search freshmeat for it) does it...

LLaP
bero