[NTLUG:Discuss] full-featured news readers

[Kevin Brannen]

I'm looking for suggestions on full-featured NNTP news readers, must 
work on Linux of course. :-)  It's been a while since I've been on 
Usenet news and things have changed since xrn was king. :-)

What do I mean by full-featured?  It needs to have a concept of 
threading, or at least "grouping"; i.e. it must be able to take a set of 
articles, stitch them back together, then do the proper unencoding on 
them.  This is important because of lot of the stuff I'm finding has 
been encoded with yEnc, djvu, and even the occassional uuencoded files.  
Then there's zip, rar, par2 (whateve that is), and so forth.

While I can gather all the pieces together, run them thru the various 
utilities and eventually get the PDF doc I was after, this is such a 
pain and there must be an easier way.  (-: Please don't make me goto 
that *evil* OS to do this. :-)

TIA,
Kevin