Re: Newsreader: Best of the bunch?

[Brendan <mailinglist@endosquid.com>]

On Sunday 16 October 2005 07:46 pm, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-10-16 at 19:24 +0100, marc wrote:
> > marc said...
> >
> > > Sorry for the cheesy question.
> > >
> > > Until now, I've retained Gravity on XP for my usenet use. Now, I'm
> > > after a Linux replacement. I use multiple servers, but I'm only
> > > interested in text-based ngs, so threading and tracking threads that
> > > I've contributed to are important. The less mouse use the better, but
> > > unless it's uber- functional, I'd prefer to avoid a curses-bases usenet
> > > reader - may the nix-gods forgive me.
> > >
> > > I welcome your suggestions, advice and experience.
> >
> > Sorry for not having responded to this thread yet, but I'm still trying
> > out all the suggestions. I thought that Pan would do, but it has a
> > couple of flaws that I can't live with.
>
> What are those flaws?

Lack of updating....
Huge memory issues and crashing (even with latest CVS)

I came from Agent via Wine, and then used Pan for years, but eventually went 
back to Agent on Wine. Works like a charm. Pan just never moved forward for 
what I needed...