From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 27 22:28:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from moutvdom00.kundenserver.de (moutvdom00.kundenserver.de [195.20.224.149]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2501E37B401 for ; Sat, 27 Oct 2001 22:28:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [195.20.224.219] (helo=mrvdom03.schlund.de) by moutvdom00.kundenserver.de with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 15xiUS-0007Gu-00; Sun, 28 Oct 2001 06:28:08 +0100 Received: from pd901722c.dip.t-dialin.net ([217.1.114.44]) by mrvdom03.schlund.de with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 15xiUR-0003Rg-00; Sun, 28 Oct 2001 06:28:08 +0100 Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 05:27:02 +0000 (GMT) From: "P. U. (Uli) Kruppa" X-X-Sender: To: Wayne Lubin Cc: Subject: Re: Communicator with Gnome part II In-Reply-To: <20011028005853.60668.qmail@web14706.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20011028051329.B5317-100000@big> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Wayne! I think communicator and mozilla are simply to slow to read big newsgroups or big mailing lists (and throw most things away). You should have a look at www.freebsd.org/ports/news.html or www.freebsd.org/ports/mail.html for a fast and small news/mail reader. When you like working in gnome enviroment, there is pan when you don't care about enviroments at all you can use pine (which is what I do) - it runs on text-console. Uli. On Sat, 27 Oct 2001, Wayne Lubin wrote: > Last time in part I of this series I was using > communiator 4.7 with gnome and was having problems > with communicator not allowing me to delete the local > list of old headers, thereby creating a growing list > of the local headers which became a problem because it > was taking comunicator a long time just list the old > headers before I could even begin downloading the > bodies of messages. So I deinstalled it, and installed > communicator 4.0 which still shows me no way to delete > old headers, but seems to not take as long to list the > old headers before allowing me to begin viewing new > newsgroup messages. So for now I guess things are > good. However, this version of communicator does not > allow me to join any newsgroups. I am subscribed to > the ones from before, but I can not join any new ones. > Yes, I go through the motions to join a group by > clicking on subscribe which lists all the groups in > that little window, but when I try to join by > highlighing the group that I want to join, and > clicking on join, and click ok and go back to the list > it simply is not listed. I have been looking at this > problem for several hours and have tried several > times, so I am quit sure that the join a group > function does not work. Has anyone run into this > problem, and knows how to fix it. Can I go to a file > that lists the subscribed to groups and just put the > groups that I want to join in the file? Also, one > more problem that seems to happen a lot is when I > click on some link, it causes netscape to die. Just > goes away. Almost 1/4 of the time this happens. Anyone > else have this problem. Is it a known thing in the > freebsd world that the netscape ports suck, and in > fact I should be using some other browser(does another > browser even exist for freebsd)? Thanks for your help. > > Wayne > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. > http://personals.yahoo.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > ************************************ * P. U. Kruppa - Wuppertal * * Germany * * www.pukruppa.de www.2000d.de * ************************************ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message