Doesn't Linux have a decent usenet reader?

[Albert Wagner]

marc wrote:
> 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.
> 
I've used and liked all of the Linux apps that you dislike.  And I hated 
everything about Windows.  Perhaps you should follow your bliss.