Doesn't Linux have a decent usenet reader?

[marc]

Hi,

About a year ago, I asked Debian users about usenet readers. The 
selection that I'd tried were, frankly, rubbish compared to what I'd 
been using on Windows for more than a decade.

Today, I tried again:

- Pan: terrible interface that *still* makes the 101 error of displaying 
threading on subject - often you can't even see the subject, which is 
bonkers -  and it still doesn't allow locking articles against purging. 
A-n-d b-o-y i-s i-t k-l-u-n-k-y. It's horrible.

- Knode: Just terrible - it's windows management is hideous. And it too 
makes the 101 error of threading on subject. Worse, there is no tagging 
of articles for download, and articles can't be protected from purging.

- Thunderbird: Oh dear

So, since another year has ticked by, I'll ask again:

 Is there a Linux newsreader that approaches anything that Windows had 
in the 90s?

:-) Yeah, I know I'm being inflammatory, but this single issue pains me 
to the core.

-- 
Best,
Marc

P.S. As my headers will show, I revert to Windows for Usenet and use 
Gravity. Twice a day I boot into XP for my dose of Usenet updates, 
because there is nothing that remotely touches Gravity in Linux. And no, 
it doesn't run under Wine, but that's not a solution either.