Iīm using slrn to follow just a few ngīs, and while it has muttīs look, it doesnīt have its feeling: I donīt feel comfortable with slang, itīs not as (easily)? configurable as mutt, plus slrnpull is giving me a headache at the moment. I d/loaded a couple of nntp patches for mutt, namely patch-1.2.5.vvv.nntp and mutt_1.2.5-nntp2.diff, and Iīd like to know which of both will work better (mail privately if this is OT, please) or is more up to date. A comparison would be nice. Ideally, I would like to use mutt for news like I do for mail, using external programs from inside mutt to retrieve and post news articles like I use fetchmail and sendmail to fetch and send mail messages ... perhaps leafnode if possible. Things Iīd like supported for newsboxes and articles are hooks for sigs, headers, etc., pgp/gpg sigs (little point for encryption), encoding/decoding either throug uudecode or uudeview, ... Thank you for your input/view, -- Horacio