newreader

[Chris G]

On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 06:58:47AM -0500, Russ Foster wrote:
> > nn FTW. I'm using it right now to read this mailing list.
> 
> It's been 15 years since I last used nn, but I think it's the most powerful
> newsreader I had ever used.
> 
> Maybe I haven't looked at the newer newsreaders enough, but the ability to
> "kill" a topic, a thread, or even "kill" a user--for 30 days--helped
> maintain sanity.  Wish I had those features in my email.
> 
> Have you gotten it to work under ubunutu?  I last tried getting it to
> run--many years ago--under Slackware without any luck. 
> 
I think I originally used nn and then moved to tin.  Try tin, I think it
has many/most of the features of nn.

(Wikipedia says "The program is generally compared with trn or
nn.[5][6][7] Some note that tin has the most flexible threading support.[7]")

-- 
Chris Green