Doesn't Linux have a decent usenet reader?

[marc]

Nancy Rudins said...
> On Fri, 11 Aug 2006, 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 used to use xrn on SunOs and Solaris systems. I see there's a
> version available for linux now but I haven't tried it yet.  I
> will download it and have a go at it and let you know if it's
> any good.

Thanks for that, Nancy. I'll give it a spin. 

> Take a sad song and make it better.  (lennon/mccartney)

Something Pane, KNode, TBird, et al should consider :-)

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Best,
Marc