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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 25 Aug 2000.
Re: REQ: Newsreader

Re: REQ: Newsreader

On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, Tilman Ahr <rio...@gmx.net> wrote:
> Another possibility would be gnus. Newer Versions seem quite powerful,
> but the configuration is somewhat intimidating to an EMACS-Novice (like
> myself :-))...

 gnus can never be a posibility.  It's emacs - that should say it all
;-)   I'd really say you should give slrn a try. It isn't sticked to a
certain editor, you know.

> Not to mention that hilarious impossibility of generating correct
> .sig-delimiters - or is that fixed by now? And the half-minute or so

 Well, it's fixed if you use the plain-text editor, which is _not_ the
default, for some versions at least.  The missing of the trailing space
is a lost in the convertion from html back to plain-text when you use
the html-editor, to my knowledge.

> 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.

 I know people that agree to it and still use it...  *shrugs*

 Anyway, I still can only encourage everyone to give slrn a try.
There's a win32-binary also, you know.  If you need any help (I just can
repeat myself ;) with it, feel free to ask me.  I once offered to write
a howto for slrn on win32 and got it even quite ready, but then I found
one linked from the slrn-homepage[1] so I droped that tutorial.

obASCII:
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 Have fun!
Alfie
[1] <http://space.mit.edu/~davis/slrn.html>
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