I looked at gnus, not really sure how it installs or works?
Jeanette

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From: "Jaguar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, November 13, 1999 9:55 AM
Subject: Re: [Re: [newbie] Good Newsgroup Reader?]


> For Binaries I use "NewsBin" on my M$ system...excellant proggy, it
supports 6
> threads and is a shareware.  With a combined (all 6 threads)d/l over my
cable
> modem, I get sustained 300K with peaks over 400K.  For general NEWS
reading I
> think that Netscape is prolly the best tho (IMHO).  Not sure if Newsbin
will
> run on Wine or VMWare.
> HTH
> Jaguar
>
> Jeanette Russo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > the problem with most of the newsreaders is that one they don't thread
> > well and two if someone puts a hypelink in their post you can't follow
it
> >
> > Jeanette
> >
> >
> > Mike Fieschko wrote:
> >
> > > >>> "Jeanette" == Jeanette Russo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > >
> > >     Jeanette> Joe Marcom wrote:
> > >     >>  Hello, again.
> > >     >>
> > >     >> I've been using Free Agent as my NG reader in window$ for as
> > >     >> long as I have been online. Now that I'm moving up to Linux,
> > >     >> what do you recommend?  Thanks.  Joe
> > >     Jeanette> This newreader problem is almost as bad as the browser
> > >     Jeanette> problem.  The best newsreader I have been able to use in
> > >     Jeanette> Linux is Netscape also.  I have tried PINE, TRN, SLRN,
> > >     Jeanette> kexpress, Free Agent on Wine (runs but won't get news),
> > >     Jeanette> knews, krn, and Pan, and Star Office newsreader and
> > >     Jeanette> Netscape is still the best.  If Linux can only get a
> > >
> > > [snip]
> > >
> > > Have you tried gnus?  It is a mail and news reader which runs in emacs
> > > or xemacs.
> > >
> > > http://www.gnus.org
> > >
> > > Very configurable, so it might be a bit complicated to set up.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA
> > > X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.75 and random-sig.el
> > > Kernel 2.2.13-28mdk
> > > http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm
> > > Nov 12 St Martin I
>
>
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