Doesn't Linux have a decent usenet reader?

marc gmane at auxbuss.com
Sun Aug 13 18:31:34 UTC 2006


Peter Garrett said...
> On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 19:54:44 +0100
> marc <gmane at auxbuss.com> wrote:
> 
> > > Fort�© Agent runs fine under Wine, or did through release 1.83.  I
> > > haven't tried it with the modern releases.
> > 
> > I might have to give that whirl.
> 
> One thing that Gravity appears to choke on - or perhaps it's just a
> configuration tweak - it mangled Robert's UTF-8 as above : )

Yup, it does. But Gravity was put on ice years ago. It was a commercial 
product - I even have a licence - but was "handed over" rather than 
withdrawn.

So yup, it's going to choke more recent stuff. Some development takes 
place - they added yenc support a while back - but it's not a maintained 
project as such.

This is all the more reason for the need for a decent alternative.

Do you want me to start listing *really* 101 stuff that *all* of the so-
called usenet clients can't do on Linux? It could take a while.

-- 
Best,
Marc





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