Re: newsgroup readers

2002-09-05 Thread irvine
Thankyou to all who responded. Seems to be no consensus - which ain't a bad thing BTW. I suppose that all that remains for me to do is to fire up apt-get and start trying out the newsreaders. Thanks again. t.irvine -- Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is

Re: newsgroup readers

2002-09-02 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 08:51:20PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have only ever accessed newsgroups using netscape under windows. > I was wondering whether anyone would be so kind as to give a novice > some advice on what clients are worth looki

Re: newsgroup readers

2002-09-02 Thread Vineet Kumar
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020902 10:56]: > Hei > > I have only ever accessed newsgroups using netscape under windows. > I was wondering whether anyone would be so kind as to give a novice > some advice on what clients are worth looking trying under linux. If you're familiar and co

Re: newsgroup readers

2002-09-02 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Mon, 2 Sep 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hei > > I have only ever accessed newsgroups using netscape under windows. > I was wondering whether anyone would be so kind as to give a novice > some advice on what clients are worth looking trying under linux. > > I here that gnus is very powerfu

Re: newsgroup readers

2002-09-02 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 08:51:20PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hei > > I have only ever accessed newsgroups using netscape under windows. > I was wondering whether anyone would be so kind as to give a novice > some advice on what clients are worth looking trying under linux. slrn is a text

newsgroup readers

2002-09-02 Thread irvine
Hei I have only ever accessed newsgroups using netscape under windows. I was wondering whether anyone would be so kind as to give a novice some advice on what clients are worth looking trying under linux. I here that gnus is very powerful but I am a vi man - I suppose I could learn emacs. Saw s