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northern Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 09 Nov 2003 Posts: 130 Location: Stoke on Trent, UK
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Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2003 11:10 pm Post subject: Can anyone recommend a news reader ? |
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Sorry if this is in the wrong forum ...
Anyway, Im thinking of subscribing to comp.lang.python and from perusing the archives it gets quite a bit of activity so I'm gonna use dedicated news software to read the posts.
Trouble is I've never used a news group reader before so I was wondering what client software you folks would recommend (Ive always just used the news reader side of mail clients).
I dont care if it's GUI or not, but I'd prefer not to have to use any KDE/Gnome specific apps such as knode etc.
Anyway, thanks in advance. |
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shadowman2oo3 Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 28 Oct 2003 Posts: 80 Location: West Palm Beach, Florida
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Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2003 11:35 pm Post subject: |
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I use Pan as my newsreader its standalone, has a nice GUI, and easy to configure. It's also quite good for binary groups as well. |
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shm Advocate
Joined: 09 Dec 2002 Posts: 2380 Location: Atlanta, Universe
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Posted: Sun Dec 07, 2003 12:01 am Post subject: |
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pan if you need good binary downloading capabilities
knode is also quite good.
since you don't want any KDE/GNOME dependencies, try Mozilla's Mail and News client or Thunderbird _________________ what up |
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tsuru Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 19 Apr 2002 Posts: 99 Location: Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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Posted: Sun Dec 07, 2003 12:14 am Post subject: |
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Don't forget the power of Emacs and GNUS. |
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northern Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 09 Nov 2003 Posts: 130 Location: Stoke on Trent, UK
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Posted: Sun Dec 07, 2003 10:31 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for the replies folks. Ive emerged pan and Im happy with it .
Many thanks again. |
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ikaro Advocate
Joined: 14 Jul 2003 Posts: 2527 Location: Denmark
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Posted: Sun Dec 07, 2003 10:33 pm Post subject: |
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sylpheed is a news reader too,
But i use pan anyway because I think its much superior to the news reader of sylpheed. _________________ linux: #232767 |
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northern Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 09 Nov 2003 Posts: 130 Location: Stoke on Trent, UK
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Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2003 8:25 am Post subject: |
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Funnily enough I emerged sylpheed last night but I havent tried it yet.
It sounds pretty good tho, I may use that or GNUMail as my main email client. |
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maKKus Guru
Joined: 07 Aug 2002 Posts: 356 Location: /Universe/Milky Way/Sol/Earth/Europe/EEC/The Netherlands/Limburg/Beek/Neerbeek
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Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2003 8:33 am Post subject: |
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Pan is very good and is not Gnome based (but uses the GTK+2 widget set like GNome.), Works also under Windows. |
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fragbert Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 18 Apr 2003 Posts: 75 Location: Dallas, TX
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Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2003 5:58 pm Post subject: |
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I use Forte Agent, since it's what I'm used to (not to mention, it is also probably the most popular newsreader besides google groups). It runs perfectly under the latest wine-20031118 |
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zenlunatic Guru
Joined: 09 Apr 2003 Posts: 312
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Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2003 6:19 pm Post subject: |
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Mozilla Mail/News is pretty nice and easy to use. I used to use it one windows and it was fine for my needs.
Pan is also nice, and I think it does binaries.
If you already know Emacs than try GNU's. If you don't know Emacs expect a moutainous learning curve, but in the end it's a great client because it's CLI, and it's incredibly customizable, and can do mail as well. A lot of non-Emacs users use SLRN CLI newsreader.
Since your only trying to subscribe to one newsgroup, I would recommend against GNU's and just going with Mozilla mail/news or thunderbird now that I think of that client. Be warned though: updating 1000+ threads in X will take longer to scroll and refresh than a CLI, and you won't have to worry about X crashes and such. |
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airflow Apprentice
Joined: 14 Dec 2003 Posts: 173 Location: Vienna, Austria
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Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2004 6:30 pm Post subject: |
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fragbert wrote: | I use Forte Agent, since it's what I'm used to (not to mention, it is also probably the most popular newsreader besides google groups). It runs perfectly under the latest wine-20031118 :) |
If you like to use Forte Agent under Windows (I did too in my Windows times), you should try pan, as it seems to be a clone of Forte Agent.
bye,
airflow |
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