-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 "Erik de Castro Lopo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > On Sun, 12 May 2002 19:46:59 +1000 > Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > <quote who="Erik de Castro Lopo"> > > > > > Now all I need is a decent GUI (yes, I prefer it that way) > > > newsreader and I can delete netscrape all together. Any > > > recommendations? > > > > How about Pan? > > > > http://pan.rebelbase.com/ > > > > Supposedly, it kicks arse. > > Tried that some time ago and I thought it sucked. I'll give it a > second go. > > > I'm not much of a news junkie though, so don't > > take it from me. :-) > > I got hooked on Usenet in 1990 at Uni. At first I was only doing 1 > or two newsgroups once or twice a week but slowly things took a > turn for the worse. Within a year I reading 20 or 30 groups a > day!!! > > Fortunately I managed to get off Usenet when i left Uni and > honestly, I didn't do News for about 2 years. Then I discovered > Linux, got myself on the net and found all the Linux newsgroups. > Soon I was back to my old bad habits. 30 to 40 groups twice a day > or more. My social life suffered and my whole life seems to > revolve around getting my next usenet fix. > > Fortunately when I was close to hitting rock bottom, I met a > wonderful woman who brought me back to life. I've now been happily > married for over two years, but I still like to get an ocasional > Usenet fix. Fortunately I control it, not the other way around. > > Erik > -- > +-----------------------------------------------------------+ > Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yes it's valid) > +-----------------------------------------------------------+ > "It's far too easy to make fun of Microsoft products, but it takes > a real man to make them work, and a god to make them do anything > useful" > -- Anonymous > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug >
You can also get your news fix at news.gname.org with the newsgroup gname.org.user-groups.slug.general Karun -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 7.0.3 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com> iQA/AwUBPN5Mwi3yaLHYVvrZEQLrQQCfS6QnmeVCZJyQWMRaVW4ML8MrvjIAni4W +QNoZfrIQf92LLj8iTquT6I4 =8JN6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
