From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Oct 10 02:36:47 1995 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id CAA25108 for ports-outgoing; Tue, 10 Oct 1995 02:36:47 -0700 Received: from mail2.digital.com (mail2.digital.com [204.123.2.56]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id CAA25101 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 1995 02:36:43 -0700 Received: from tartufo.pcs.dec.com by mail2.digital.com; (5.65 EXP 4/12/95 for V3.2/1.0/WV) id AA09116; Tue, 10 Oct 1995 02:34:45 -0700 Received: by tartufo.pcs.dec.com (/\=-/\ Smail3.1.16.1 #16.39) id ; Tue, 10 Oct 95 11:34 MSZ Message-Id: Date: Tue, 10 Oct 95 11:34 MSZ From: me@tartufo.pcs.dec.com (Michael Elbel) To: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Netscape 2.0beta1 (fwd) Newsgroups: pcs.freebsd.ports References: <199510092205.XAA04446@keltia.freenix.fr> Reply-To: me@freebsd.org Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk In pcs.freebsd.ports you write: >You still cannot cancel your own articles. Major whine. >It still has no kill-file capability. Major whine. Hey, but it *looks* nice. What do you need functionality for? :-) >It is still too easy to send quoted-printable or html crap in Usenet. Major >whine for national groups like fr.* for me. Yeah, that's disgusting, I agree. >It is heavy on system resources, takes a lot of memory and sources are not >available. I wouldn'd mind the "no sources" that much if it did all I needed. I also dislike that it doesn't use NOV databases, makes it a pain to read a newsgroup that has more than a couple of articles. >Netscape has forgotten the KISS principle and the "one tool for one task" >simplicity of UNIX. Tell this to us (X)Emacs users ;-), but I'll agree and keep using nn for the forseeable future. Michael -- Michael Elbel, PCS GmbH, Muenchen, Germany - me@FreeBSD.org Fermentation fault (coors dumped)