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
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