Re: REQ: Newsreader
alf...@innocent.com (Gerfried Fuchs) wrote: > If it really should be a graphical one you should give pan a try. > It's > gtk based but that shouldn't be much of a problem even with KDE. Runs with KDE BUT: in 0.8.1B3 (latest release) it generates invalid MSIDs (at least in certain configurations, it crashes sometimes, and doesn't save the scorefile between sessions - for the moment I would rather suggest KNode as a 'standin'. Although I personally am looking forward to a _really_ usable version of pan - shows lots of promise IMHO. - Oh Yeah! Did I mention that it seems to randomly generate memory floods on my machine? :-/ > If you are on the other hand searching for a real powerful > newsreader, > you should really give slrn a try - it's worth the first maybe hard > days finding the right keys (it's text based, but it has also online > help for the default key bindings, and there is a really good > documented .slrnrc within the package). Another possibility would be gnus. Newer Versions seem quite powerful, but the configuration is somewhat intimidating to an EMACS-Novice (like myself :-))... >> At the moment I am using "Netscape Communicator" and I can not stand >> it. > > Read my signature :-) I fully agree to it - e.g. NC still can't read > messages with MIDs longer than aproximately 100 characters, which is > not even the half the RFCs requests to be able to use. Not to mention that hilarious impossibility of generating correct .sig-delimiters - or is that fixed by now? And the half-minute or so startup time - and the frequent crashes - and... Well: Communicator is _definetly_ not for mail/news. I think a great many people will agree on that. Tilman -- +------------+-------------------------------------------+ |Tilman Ahr | Email: rio...@gmx.net | | | til...@student.hu-berlin.de | +------------+-------------PGP-Key available by request--+
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,abc08ee58ecae3e1 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: "Tilman Ahr" <rio...@gmx.net> Subject: Re: REQ: Newsreader Date: 2000/08/24 Message-ID: <8o38pu$9smaa$1...@ID-35725.news.cis.dfn.de>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 661952100 X-No-Productlinks: Yes References: <39982d86$0$72396$44a...@news.net-link.net> <200...@skater.priv.at> X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 967124607 10377546 149.225.54.25 (16 [35725]) Organization: RiotCo, ltd. User-Agent: Pan/0.8.1beta3 (Unix) Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
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