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Subject: Re: Good newsreaders for FreeBSD?
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> I'm looking for a newsreader that has multi-server capabilities in that
> it can piece together articles using different newsgroup servers.
> Similar to NewsPro for windoze.  Anyone had any luck with a good
> newreader port for FreeBSD?  I'm running FreeBSD 4.10 if that makes any
> difference.

It doesn't have that particular feature you mentioned, but the one news reader 
that is closest to being perfect for me is slrn - very nice.

As someone mentioned; leafnode can be used as a suitable "proxy" NNTP server 
that can pull news from multiple servers.

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