Re: [SLUG] newsreaders

From: Eben King (eben01@verizon.net)
Date: Tue Mar 18 2008 - 14:33:03 EST


On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, Mario Lombardo wrote:

> Ron Youvan wrote:
>>> What newsreader do you recommend that has yenc and uu support (base-64 is
>>> not so common ISTM)? I have Thunderbird but can't see a way to do it.
>>> trn has the same level of support but is easier to make it DTRT by virtue
>>> of it being textual. Both suck, however.
>>
>> I like and use pan, the latest version allows a directory be assigned
>> to each group and a changeable field.
>
> Ehhh couldn't help myself. I've been away from Usenet for quite some time.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_news_clients

I'm thinking I'll go for Pan. Its home page (http://pan.rebelbase.com/)
proclaims it to be "a newsreader for GNOME". Will it work without GNOME?
Anyone use it that way? I use no environment, fvwm2 alone.

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