Ryan Tandy wrote: > JimD wrote: >> If the above is not doable, does anyone know of a good binary news >> reader for Linux? > > What's wrong with Thunderbird?
For binary news groups? I could give it a shot. However, Thunderbird sucks up tons of memory for text-only news groups with a few hundred posts. I hat to see how much memory it uses for a news group with 100,000+ posts! >> GrabIt is simple, fast and stable. Though it >> is closed source and only runs on WinXP which doesn't help me now :-( > > Wine ;) It does start up fine in Wine. I will give it a go and see if it will download and all that jazz. Jim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= There's no place like 127.0.0.1 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= JimD Central FL, USA, Earth, Sol -- [email protected] mailing list

