I've got one more suggestion. I did briefly try a program called "news peruser" an X based offline news fetcher/reader. It looked pretty good at the time but that was prior to my current install and I haven't installed it again. I grabbed it in .rpm format and used alien to install it.
http://www.wwdc.com/~jbailie/peruser.html This link will give you some information on it complete with screen shots. > I d/led slrn and configured it, but as a couple of you suspected it > _doesn't_ support d/l of just headers and the picking of interesting > articles. I can't afford to d/l all the newsgroups I keep up with - some > of them have over 100 messages a day, so I'm still looking for a true > off-line news reader like the one I have in Windows at the moment <g> -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .