News Reader Recommendations

zenz · n00b Joined: 02 Feb 2003 Posts: 48 Location: Vancouver, BC

Just wondering what you guys would reocommend as a news reader/binary downloader.

I use Xnews in windows and it's fast and easy to use. I used to use pan in linux but it's extremely slow (esp when sorting and loading), and crashes/freezes often. I mean, my wined xnews runs better/faster than it.

Any recommendations for a pan-replacer?
Thanks in advance

xlyz · Veteran Joined: 27 Oct 2002 Posts: 1470 Location: Italy

try sylpheed-claws

credmp · Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2003 9:59 pm Post subject:

Hi,

Well.. in my world there are a few choices... if you love Emacs, use gnus

... or if you are otherwise inclined you might want to try 'slrn'; it doesn't have a fancy gui (console based) but it kicks buttucks.

regards,

arjen

s1th · Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2003 12:55 pm Post subject:

I would have to recommend 'slrn' aswell.
If you like mutt as your MUA, you'll like slrn as your newsreader.
It supports a scoring system, free key bindings, SSL and IPv6 to name but a few. It's highly customizable.
http://slrn.sourceforge.net/

HTH
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idoneus · Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2003 2:40 pm Post subject:

Well in my case the only answer can be emacs!
I just love it.

But heard quite a few good things about slrn too.

Evil Dark Archon · Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2003 7:06 pm Post subject:

if you have kde it comes bundled with a news reader, the only drawback is that i am not sure if it can handle multi-part messages