mail reader for news and mail

[Debian User <punux@attbi.com>]

Any suggestions for client that reads mail *and* news?

I currently use mutt, but then use gnus for newsgroups...  briefly
looked into vm and rmail... not exactly attractive...

want to get away from the huge ness of emacs...

perhaps will get used to having two terminals open all the time - one
for mutt and one for slrn...

I used to use pine in college, but I remember it not having thread
capability for newsgroups.  Is that still true?

Any other suggestions?

Oh - preferrably terminal based....

-fellow deb user