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Re: Newsreaders (was: Re: How to flush cache of certain disk?)



On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 04:26:43PM +0000, Camaleón wrote:

... 

> > Yeah, that's exactly what I'm intended to do: switch to mutt. What news
> > reader do you mean? Is it some kind of plugin for mutt, or is it
> > separate application at all? Excuse me for offtop, you can answer
> > privately if you want.
> 
> For Mutt, there is an external patch¹ (it does not come integrated with 
> debian mutt package) to allow using it as newsreader but I have not 
> tested that :-?
> 
> I am using a separate application for newsreader ("Pan²"). 
> 
> I'm very happy with Mutt but as per Pan, I could not say the same :-). I 
> find it a bit memory hog (48 MiB) and the version I am running has an 
> annoying bug that makes me appear like I am writing from a timezone of GMT
> +0000 (when someone replies to my posts), which is wrong (my zone is 
> currently GMT+0200). Pan takes the timezone of the server sending the e-
> mail, instead the user's one. Nothing serious.
> 
> ¹ http://www.fiction.net/blong/programs/mutt/#nntp
> ² http://pan.rebelbase.com/
> 

Have you ever tried tin? I always end up going back to it when I am in a
usenet phase.

-- 
Kind Regards,
Freeman

http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/


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