Doesn't Linux have a decent usenet reader?

[marc]

Albert Wagner said...
> 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.

How do you give someone the bird in ASCII? Ah well, consider it done.

-- 
Best,
Marc