[KLUG Members] Re: usenet

[Stuart Gillis]

If you want to download binaries - mp3, pictures etc try BNR2 

On 7/28/05, Dennis <dennis1111 at comcast.net> wrote:
> Eric Beversluis wrote:
> > 
> > I think I need a "news client."  The Charter.com page mentions Outlook
> > Express as such a client. [ :-( ] . Also Agent, Newsbin, Xnews.
> > --Does Evolution work as a client? If so how? Or (I guess this is what
> > my original question comes to), is there some other program in Linux
> > that does this?
> > --Or is it just as easy (or easier) to use Google?
> > 
> 
> Mozilla, the suite - Seamonkey, has a decent gui newsreader.  I like
> slrn for text only newsgroups.  Most linux distributions have more
> than one news reader ready to go after the initial installation, if
> you do a 'full' install.  Knode, pan, Mozilla, slrn, or maybe others
> depending on you distribution.
> 
> I do not like web browser based nntp clients, like google groups. 
> Moving around between groups feels clubby.  Threading is miserable. 
> The only good thing is the searchability, that is the only time I use
> google for newsgroups.
> -- 
> Dennis
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