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[Cameron Hutchison]

"Russ Foster" <rjf at russfoster.com> writes:

>> 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.

Likewise. It was the last newsreader I used when I stopped reading
usenet. It is/was great for getting through large volumes of postings,
most of which you dont want to read (such as the recent issues here :-)

>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'm using it under Debian. It's version is 6.7.3-2.1, dated 08 Mar 2008,
so I expect that is what you should find in Ubuntu. I've got a couple of
my own patches on top of that version, but it should work. One problem I
had was nn wanting to find a domain name in /etc/resolv.conf and it
wouldn't start if it wasn't there. I added a "domain-name" option to
override that.

I'm not sure if there are any public news servers you can use to read
this and other mailing lists. I run a local news server (sn) that I feed
my mailing list subscriptions to.