[NTLUG:Discuss] full-featured news readers

[Jack Snodgrass]

I use PAN. For a while, it was being updated monthly... development 
has seemed to slowed down to a crawl... but what is available is pretty
good... I use it to download .mpg files....  ( I tend to stay away
from .avi files.... a lot of them that I've downloaded didn't play 
with my mplayer setup ) and they seem to download ok. You get a 
'red' mark when one of the '1 of 50' messages is misssing so it 
can detect when something is split up and incomplete. Not 100%
sure about the yEnc, djvu, etc stuff... I just click on a 
message, save it and it does the rest. 

jack 


On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 23:06 -0500, Kevin Brannen wrote:
> 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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