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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!inmos!marble.uknet.ac.uk!mcsun!sun4nl!tuegate.tue.nl!terra.stack.urc.tue.nl!tricky.wft.stack.urc.tue.nl!jim From: jim@wft.stack.urc.tue.nl (Jim Rump) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: NNTP Client---What exactly does it take? Message-ID: <1onice$2lq@tricky.es.ele.tue.nl> Date: 23 Mar 93 17:45:50 GMT References: <1omgleINNdnc@network.ucsd.edu> Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands Lines: 12 NNTP-Posting-Host: shark.wft.stack.urc.tue.nl X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8] Rick Dante (rdante@sdcc13.ucsd.edu) wrote: : If you're running X than you can use xvnews which is an excellent : gui news front end. : I think it's *MUCH* better than xrn : (which I think is crap to be honest). Although it's an xview : (openwindows) client, you don't need to be running olwm (xview3) : to run xvnews. Look on agate in the "from-ref" directory for xvnews. Yeh it looks real nice, but what about threading? xvnews doesn't seem to do this. Jim.