Newsreaders for Ubuntu and Linux

[Chanchao]

On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 15:55 -0500, James Silverton wrote:

>  FAS> If you're talkiing about an RSS aggregator, 

HE'S NOT!!!! OBVIOUSLY!!!  :-)

>From the very start if was blatantly obvious even to my 1 year old that
a 'newsreader' == 'Usenet Newsgroups' == an NNTP client.

Anyway, to the uninitiated: Kids: Usenet is actually TWO things.  So
even when talking about Usenet Newsgroups, people will have vastly
differing requirements.  The two groups are, broadly:

 1. Largely unmoderated discussion forums that are near continuous
    flame & spam fests.  Discuss if Michael Schumacher is gay, or why
    Linus has lost the plot, ad vomitum. 

 2. A place to get porn, vidz & wAreZZzz. 

Unsurprisingly, no one tool does both best.  For people looking for 1),
there are a lot of tools. Indeed Thunderbird and Pan (and Google Groups
on the web), but honestly I find myself liking the text-based 'tin' a
lot more. Why.. Who knows, I'm a dinosaur, and tin is fast.  I set the
terminal colours to green on black and pretend I'm young again.  

For 2), to work on your porn-stash, there's really one that stands out:
Klibido!!!!!!!!!  This is a KDE app but don't hold that against it; sure
it'll grab several KDE packages (kdebase-kitchen-sink et al) but sooner
or later you'll end up with those packages anyway so go ahead and take
the plunge. 

> As I said a little earlier, you people have given me a lot to 
> think about.  To me, an "online reader" is different from an RSS 
> aggregator but I'm no expert on terminology :-)

It *IS*. And you ARE!..  People fault themselves far too quickly these
days, really life is a much happier place when your standard assumption
is that everyone else is (*#$(&(#* in the head.

Cheers,
Chanchao