Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Bokma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> It's time consuming because there is (yet) no need for it. When I >> started to use Usenet there where only a handful of clients (IIRC), nn >> and another one (rn?) are the only ones that I can recall. > > By the time nn was out, there were a number of radically diffrent > alternatives. The original news client (not NNTP - it predated that) > was readnews. rn was the first alternative to gain any popularity. By > the time it came out, there were alterntiave curses-based readers like > notes and vnews. By the time nn came out, there were even X-based news > readers available like xrn and xvnews.
I recall something like pine? (or was that mail, and was there something pine related for usenet?) > It may be that the site you were at only offered a few readers. Probably more correct: I now and then used telnet to connect, so uhm.. no X. And more important, I didn't look further :-) > But > that's a different issue. > > All of this is from memory, of course - and may well be wrong. Those were the days, thanks. -- John Small Perl scripts: http://johnbokma.com/perl/ Perl programmer available: http://castleamber.com/ Happy Customers: http://castleamber.com/testimonials.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
