Doesn't Linux have a decent usenet reader?

[Peter Garrett]

On Sun, 13 Aug 2006 19:31:34 +0100
marc <gmane at auxbuss.com> wrote:

> 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 : )
[snip]
> 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.

Me personally? Well, no ;-)

My post was not intended as a defence of Linux news clients, or as a
belligerent act of criticism - I just thought it was possible that you
were unaware of the UTF-8 issue. So my intention was to be informative,
not bellicose ;-)

Peter