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Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 03:52:38 +0200
From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
To: David Leimbach <dleimbac@earthlink.net>
Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Good text based news-reader
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On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 07:56:35PM -0500, David Leimbach wrote:
> Can anyone recommend a good text based news reader.

I would recommend slrn or tin. Personally I use tin but I am
considering changing to slrn since slrn is quite a bit faster and less
resource-hungry. 
Both are good.

> 
> I used to be fairly partial to rtin on AIX machines in the early->mid 90's.
> 
> I know about PINE and its email/news capabilities.  That's why I use mutt :).
> 

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Erik Trulsson
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