On Sun, 12 May 2002 19:46:59 +1000 Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> <quote who="Erik de Castro Lopo"> > > > Now all I need is a decent GUI (yes, I prefer it that way) newsreader > > and I can delete netscrape all together. Any recommendations? > > How about Pan? > > http://pan.rebelbase.com/ > > Supposedly, it kicks arse. Tried that some time ago and I thought it sucked. I'll give it a second go. > I'm not much of a news junkie though, so don't > take it from me. :-) I got hooked on Usenet in 1990 at Uni. At first I was only doing 1 or two newsgroups once or twice a week but slowly things took a turn for the worse. Within a year I reading 20 or 30 groups a day!!! Fortunately I managed to get off Usenet when i left Uni and honestly, I didn't do News for about 2 years. Then I discovered Linux, got myself on the net and found all the Linux newsgroups. Soon I was back to my old bad habits. 30 to 40 groups twice a day or more. My social life suffered and my whole life seems to revolve around getting my next usenet fix. Fortunately when I was close to hitting rock bottom, I met a wonderful woman who brought me back to life. I've now been happily married for over two years, but I still like to get an ocasional Usenet fix. Fortunately I control it, not the other way around. Erik -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yes it's valid) +-----------------------------------------------------------+ "It's far too easy to make fun of Microsoft products, but it takes a real man to make them work, and a god to make them do anything useful" -- Anonymous -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
