John Bokma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It's time consuming because there is (yet) no need for it. When I > started to use Usenet there where only a handful of clients (IIRC), nn > and another one (rn?) are the only ones that I can recall.
By the time nn was out, there were a number of radically diffrent alternatives. The original news client (not NNTP - it predated that) was readnews. rn was the first alternative to gain any popularity. By the time it came out, there were alterntiave curses-based readers like notes and vnews. By the time nn came out, there were even X-based news readers available like xrn and xvnews. It may be that the site you were at only offered a few readers. But that's a different issue. All of this is from memory, of course - and may well be wrong. <mike -- Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list