Re: still in search of a good news reader

[Marc Shapiro <mshapiro_42@yahoo.com>]

Arthur Marsh wrote:

> After finding out that Thunderbird is unlikely to support
> newsgroup filtering based on cross-posts (something that I did at the
> news-server level with INN back in 1993), I looked at what other
> newsreaders were available for Debian unstable. I aborted installing knews
> because it appeared to only support one news-server (I currently use 3
> different servers), and installed pan.
>
> Although pan is able to do rudimentary filtering based on cross-posting,
> it still appears "dumbed-down" and some options that I'd like to pick
> global defaults for seem to only be able to be set per newsgroup.
>
> The biggest issue I have with pan seem to be:
>
> I can't find out how to view attachments from within pan.
>
> Does anyone have suggestions on a good newsreader package with support for
> multiple nntp servers and filtering? I'd prefer gui but did start out with
> tin (-:.
>  
Been there.  Done that.  Tin for usenet and Pine for mail.  Did that for 
at least a year, or two.  This is why I still use pico for a lot of my 
text editing.

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Marc Shapiro

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