Doesn't Linux have a decent usenet reader?

[marc]

Mariano Draghi 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.
> [snip]
> 
> Marc, have you tried XPN?
> http://xpn.altervista.org/index-en.html

I've never heard of this one. It certainly looks pretty good.

> As fas as I know (or as far as apt-cache tells me...) there's no package
> for Ubuntu. But one of the nice things about XPN is that you can drop it
> in whatever directory you please, and run it from there. No need to
> install.

Nice.
 
> It's written in Python. The GUI could get some love.

Hey, we're in Linuxland.

> It has some nice
> features I couldn't find in PAN or Thunderbird, and it does the "keep
> article" thing right (the threading is "standard" though, based on
> subject and not like the one shown in the screenshots you shared)

Hallelujah. 

> Disclaimer: I'm not a usenet power-user nor had tried Gravity, so I
> don't know if it will suite you... but maybe you can give it a try.

:-) I'm no power user, but I'm staggered at how low the bar is in this 
particular domain on Linux. Mind you, I use Opus 8 as a file manager on 
Windows and Linux is light years away from it. Krusader is cool-ish, but 
they are trying to copy the wrong app.

Thanks for the heads up.

-- 
Best,
Marc