[NTLUG:Discuss] full-featured news readers

[Paul Ingendorf]

Did PAN not do it for you?  I'm not much into news groups but it seemed to
be just as good as xnews.

http://freshmeat.net/search/?q=pan

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From: discuss-bounces at ntlug.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at ntlug.org]On
Behalf Of Kevin Brannen
Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 11:06 PM
To: ntlug
Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] full-featured news readers


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

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