From owner-freebsd-questions  Tue Nov 11 15:25:09 1997
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions>
Received: (from root@localhost)
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA03053
          for questions-outgoing; Tue, 11 Nov 1997 15:25:09 -0800 (PST)
          (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions)
Received: from awfulhak.demon.co.uk (awfulhak.demon.co.uk [158.152.17.1])
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA03043
          for <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>; Tue, 11 Nov 1997 15:24:59 -0800 (PST)
          (envelope-from brian@awfulhak.org)
Received: from gate.lan.awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1])
	by awfulhak.demon.co.uk (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA21488;
	Tue, 11 Nov 1997 23:17:58 GMT
Message-Id: <199711112317.XAA21488@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97
To: Mariusz Potocki <potok@friko.onet.pl>
cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Offline news reader for X recommendation 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 11 Nov 1997 21:14:06 +0100."
             <XFMail.971111211927.potok@friko.onet.pl> 
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 23:17:58 +0000
From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>
Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
X-Loop: FreeBSD.org
Precedence: bulk

> Could you recommend some offline news reader for Xwindow?
> (Something like News Agent from M$ world).

Take a look at ``knews''.  It's a tcl program and is available as a 
``port''.

You'll also need a news server ;-)

The easiest to configure is leafnode (there's a port) which is 
designed for small systems.  The best is arguably innd (yep, a port!).

> Mariusz
> 
>         "verba volant,
>                 scripta manent"

-- 
Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>, <brian@FreeBSD.org>, <bri@OpenBSD.org>
      <http://www.Awfulhak.org>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....