Re: Good newsreaders for FreeBSD?

2004-10-19 Thread Christopher Nehren
On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 15:32 -0700, Joshua Tinnin wrote: Well, I'm not sure about pulling articles from multiple servers, but my GUI newsreader of choice is Pan. However, it never reached a stable or gold version, and it has been stagnant for some time, as the author doesn't seem to have

Re: Good newsreaders for FreeBSD?

2004-10-19 Thread Joshua Tinnin
On Monday 18 October 2004 11:10 pm, Christopher Nehren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 15:32 -0700, Joshua Tinnin wrote: Well, I'm not sure about pulling articles from multiple servers, but my GUI newsreader of choice is Pan. However, it never reached a stable or gold

Re: Good newsreaders for FreeBSD?

2004-10-19 Thread terry tyson
On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 18:36:32 -0400, Frank J. Laszlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think evolution has a news reader. You might want to look into that. Regards, Frank Yes evolution has a news reader and it works quite well for me. Have had a few problems but it wasn't with evolution, it was

Re: Good newsreaders for FreeBSD?

2004-10-19 Thread R. W.
On Tuesday 19 October 2004 08:59, Joshua Tinnin wrote: On Monday 18 October 2004 11:10 pm, Christopher Nehren Hmph. Just a few days ago I was thinking about how Pan deserves a 1.0 version number because of its full feature set, stability, and so forth. It's never crashed here, and I've

Re: Good newsreaders for FreeBSD?

2004-10-19 Thread Christopher Nehren
On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 00:59 -0700, Joshua Tinnin wrote: Really? What version of FreeBSD are you using, and what's your window manager/desktop? Currently, I'm using FreeBSD 5.3B7 with GNOME + XFce's window manager (I happen to like window docking and some other features that Metacity will

Re: Good newsreaders for FreeBSD?

2004-10-19 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
Tom Connolly wrote: Hello List, I'm looking for a newsreader that has multi-server capabilities in that it can piece together articles using different newsgroup servers. Similar to NewsPro for windoze. Anyone had any luck with a good newreader port for FreeBSD? I'm running FreeBSD 4.10 if that

Re: Good newsreaders for FreeBSD?

2004-10-19 Thread Björn Lindström
Benjamin Walkenhorst [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It does not have the multiserver-capabilities you describe, but otherwise I like it a lot. That can be worked around by using some sort of NNTP proxy, such as leafnode or noffle (both quite simple to set up). That will also get rid of the need for

Re: Good newsreaders for FreeBSD?

2004-10-19 Thread Peter Schuller
I'm looking for a newsreader that has multi-server capabilities in that it can piece together articles using different newsgroup servers. Similar to NewsPro for windoze. Anyone had any luck with a good newreader port for FreeBSD? I'm running FreeBSD 4.10 if that makes any difference. It

Re: Good newsreaders for FreeBSD?

2004-10-19 Thread terry tyson
On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 15:51:28 +0100, Walker, Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I really didn't know that. At the moment I am using evolution for my mail and mozilla as my news client. How do you access the news client? I just had a quick look through the Ximian online doc's and couldn't find

Re: Good newsreaders for FreeBSD?

2004-10-18 Thread Joshua Tinnin
On Monday 18 October 2004 03:21 pm, Tom Connolly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello List, I'm looking for a newsreader that has multi-server capabilities in that it can piece together articles using different newsgroup servers. Similar to NewsPro for windoze. Anyone had any luck with a good

Re: Good newsreaders for FreeBSD?

2004-10-18 Thread Frank J. Laszlo
Tom Connolly wrote: Hello List, I'm looking for a newsreader that has multi-server capabilities in that it can piece together articles using different newsgroup servers. Similar to NewsPro for windoze. Anyone had any luck with a good newreader port for FreeBSD? I'm running FreeBSD 4.10 if that