Jim Henderson <[email protected]> posted [email protected], excerpted below, on Wed, 04 Mar 2009 21:53:21 +0000:
> Just got my April 2009 issue (yes, I'm a time traveler, apparently <g>), FWIW, magazine dates used to confuse me too. Then it was explained to me that the date is when it /expires/, not when it's published or hits your box and the stands. Thus, for a monthly (which I assume Linux Format is), just getting the April edition should be correct -- it'll expire the beginning of April when the May edition comes out. So it sort of makes sense, but it's still a bit confusing. > and the "Roundup" this month is on newsreaders. > > They compared Gnus, SLRN, Thunderbird, XPN, KNode, and Pan. > > Pan rated an 8/10 in the review, and was given the thumbs up in their > verdict (ie, it was selected as the best of the newsreaders). > > Pan's binary download handling is what pushed it over KNode, but they do > note that KNode's scoring system is better than Pan's. Congrats Pan! You (they) are right, tho, it's scoring could be better, and of course knode can /post/ binaries (but not yEnc, AFAIK), something pan can't do on its own. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
