Re: Text-based News Readers

In article <3oAwf.8814$V.1598@fed1read04>,
Conrad J. Sabatier <conrads@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>In article <IsrH69.1748@xxxxxxx>, Bill Vermillion <bv@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>
>>In article <VYZvf.8497$V.7526@fed1read04>,
>>Conrad J. Sabatier <conrads@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>In article <1136556540_17@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>>>Russell Wood <rjw@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Hi all;
>>>>
>>>>What are some decent, text based (no need for binary) News Readers
>>>>available?
>>
>>>>I've scanned the ports and tried a few, but I would like to see some
>>>>user's opinions.
>>
>>>I'm a die-hard fan of good ol' trn4, myself. While it may seem a
>>>little weird at first, once you get used to it, it makes for a
>>>very flexible and fast way to deal with news.
>>
>>I thought trn4 was a bit strange - so I stuck with trn3. It's in
>>ports - but the first time I just moved it over from an old SysV.3
>>version from Esix when I moved permanently from the SysV world
>>to BSD-land.
>>
>>The only thing I miss from the old 'rn' days from which trn
>>evolved, was the ability to save a complete thread with one
>>keystroke. But marking the cross-posted threads in trn which rn
>>did not do - was a great blessing.
>>
>>I hate to change :-)

>Same here. I've tried slrn and other news clients, but they just
>didn't "feel right" to me. I always ended up back with trn4.

>I especially like the mouse functionality in trn4 under X. This alone makes
>it worth the upgrade. Support for multiple servers/newsrcs is also nice.
>You may, if you wish, still have it appear and function exactly like the old
>trn, but once you get used to the new version, you won't want to. :-)

I don't do mice :-).

I stay primarily in an 80x24 text mode. With green letters on a
black background - for ease of reading.

And I don't worry about multiples servers - I just use the one I
have installed on my own machine :-) [You can see how old-school I
am now :-) ].

Bill

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Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com
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