Doesn't Linux have a decent usenet reader?

[Brian Pack]

On Friday 11 August 2006 17:10, 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.
>
> --
> 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.

I take it you're trying the Ubuntu package directly from pan.rebelbase.com 
rather than the repositories? Development is in full swing again, and a new 
version is due soon. I like it for the easy scoring system and quick perusal 
of pics. For split binaries or multi-part RAR files, it's absolutely hideous.

When I need to use one of the groups for files like that (i.e. 
alt.binaries.multimedia.cartoons.looneytunes), I run News Rover in WINE. Just 
to make sure it all works, I also have QuickPar and WinRAR installed to run 
in WINE.
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