Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 02:10:35 -0400 From: Christopher Nehren <apeiron@comcast.net> To: krinklyfig@spymac.com Cc: Tom Connolly <tomc@cqg.com> Subject: Re: Good newsreaders for FreeBSD? Message-ID: <1098166235.1547.62.camel@prophecy.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <200410181532.00772.krinklyfig@spymac.com> References: <027401c4b560$e29d8b40$9a11a8c0@d3stomc> <200410181532.00772.krinklyfig@spymac.com>
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--=-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--
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