Can anyone recommend a news reader ?

northern

Sorry if this is in the wrong forum ... :oops:

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.

shadowman2oo3 · Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2003 11:35 pm Post subject:

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.

shm · Posted: Sun Dec 07, 2003 12:01 am Post subject:

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
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tsuru · Posted: Sun Dec 07, 2003 12:14 am Post subject:

Don't forget the power of Emacs and GNUS.

northern · Posted: Sun Dec 07, 2003 10:31 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the replies folks. Ive emerged pan and Im happy with it

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Many thanks again.

ikaro · Advocate Joined: 14 Jul 2003 Posts: 2527 Location: Denmark

sylpheed is a news reader too,
But i use pan anyway because I think its much superior to the news reader of sylpheed.
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northern · Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2003 8:25 am Post subject:

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.

maKKus · Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2003 8:33 am Post subject:

Pan is very good and is not Gnome based (but uses the GTK+2 widget set like GNome.), Works also under Windows.

fragbert · Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2003 5:58 pm Post subject:

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

zenlunatic · Guru Joined: 09 Apr 2003 Posts: 312

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.

airflow · Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2004 6:30 pm Post subject: