From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 19 06:10:38 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EE1B16A4CE for ; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 06:10:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sccrmhc12.comcast.net (sccrmhc12.comcast.net [204.127.202.56]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0473743D2F for ; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 06:10:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from apeiron@comcast.net) Received: from localhost.localdomain (pcp08490587pcs.levtwn01.pa.comcast.net[68.83.169.224]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc12) with SMTP id <2004101906103701200ftni1e> (Authid: apeiron); Tue, 19 Oct 2004 06:10:37 +0000 From: Christopher Nehren To: krinklyfig@spymac.com In-Reply-To: <200410181532.00772.krinklyfig@spymac.com> References: <027401c4b560$e29d8b40$9a11a8c0@d3stomc> <200410181532.00772.krinklyfig@spymac.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-6f3CdLNLKbM4mI2gDeLf" Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 02:10:35 -0400 Message-Id: <1098166235.1547.62.camel@prophecy.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.2FreeBSD GNOME Team Port cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc: Tom Connolly Subject: Re: Good newsreaders for FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 06:10:38 -0000 --=-6f3CdLNLKbM4mI2gDeLf Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 15:32 -0700, Joshua Tinnin wrote: > Well, I'm not sure about pulling articles from multiple servers, but my=20 > GUI newsreader of choice is Pan. However, it never reached a stable or=20 > "gold" version, and it has been stagnant for some time, as the author=20 > doesn't seem to have time to deal with it these days. Many patches have=20 > been posted in various places online, but the version in the ports tree=20 > crashes frequently, at least on my 5.3-BETA7/STABLE (previously 5.2.1)=20 > box. I'd love if someone good at programming made it into a decent=20 > newsreader ... am learning what I can .... Hmph. Just a few days ago I was thinking about how Pan deserves a 1.0 version number because of its full feature set, stability, and so forth. It's never crashed here, and I've been using it since before 5.0 existed. --=20 I abhor a system designed for the "user", if that word is a coded pejorative meaning "stupid and unsophisticated". -- Ken Thompson - Unix is user friendly. However, it isn't idiot friendly. --=-6f3CdLNLKbM4mI2gDeLf Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBBdK/bk/lo7zvzJioRAtNAAKCzNWT5yY0Md17MeLib8KXUrydH8wCfXd3j V2F3+d4G2b5uLUyyLraAMYo= =fR3+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-6f3CdLNLKbM4mI2gDeLf--