Re: Off-line newsreader
On Fri, 23 Jan 1998, Ian & Gill Watkins wrote:
> Can anybody suggest a good off-line news-reader that I can use with Linux?
> I'd prefer one that comes with the Debian distribution - I've looked at
> Netscape, but don't like the interface, I'd prefer a text-based one.
>
> I just want to be able to connect to my news server, grab headers and
> selected articles and post articles and any mail to my POP3 email server at
> my ISP....
>
> I don't really want to set-up a full feed of the groups I get as I want to
> keep my on-line time down....
You should take a look at slrn. I haven't used it off-line, but it looks
like it can support that with slrnpull to grab articles.
Bob
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