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Re: mail reader for news and mail



On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 02:54:15AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 12:06:16AM -0800, Debian User wrote:
> > Any suggestions for client that reads mail *and* news?
> You don't see much software designed to do both, because the design
> itself is both bad and borne of laziness.  It's not *that* hard to
> open two xterms and type one command in each for starters, and it's
> far better to do one function well than two craptastically.  Which is

Or start them in screen; then it just takes a quick 'ctrl-a a' to switch
between them.

> BTW, news is to mail as tin is to elm, I'm wondering if there's a mutt
> equivilent to tin...

I've heard that there is a patch to mutt that allows it to work with
nntp; I'm sure a google search will turn it up.

-rob

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