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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!Germany.EU.net!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uuneo.neosoft.com!mypc From: conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier) Newsgroups: news.software.readers,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: UNIX remote NNTP newsreader suggestions needed Date: Fri, 21 Jun 96 23:07:44 GMT Organization: What? Me, organize? Lines: 26 Message-ID: <4qfa00$q4_002@mypc.neosoft.com> References: <4qa4vm$dp6@uuneo.neosoft.com> <31CA0B74.5AAC@www.play-hookey.com> <slrn4sjton.r0.cbbrowne@dantzig.nodomain.nowhere> NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.27.165.144 X-Newsreader: News Xpress 2.0 Beta #1 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au news.software.readers:27968 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:21849 In article <slrn4sjton.r0.cbbrowne@dantzig.nodomain.nowhere>, cbbrowne@conline.com wrote: >In article <31CA0B74.5AAC@www.play-hookey.com>, Ken Bigelow wrote: > >I don't know about your results with Netscape... I find it about as >brittle and prone to crash as any MS product. (Happily, under Linux >and other UNIX-like OSes when a process does a segmentation violation, >it *doesn't* hose the machine.) > >slrn seems to fit the bill; I *was* using strn (scoring version trn), >which was taking a *lot* of time even just to load up individual news >groups. > >slrn looks for *new* newsgroups, but doesn't load the whole list. > >It appears to be somewhat optimized for use with slow connections; >the designers had 14.4K in mind rather than 28.8. > >I've been pretty happy with slrn. Thanks, but I'd really like to stick with trn, so I can try out Tim Pierce's Nifty Killfile Technology(c). :-) I just grabbed the mthreads package. Maybe that'll help. We'll see. -- Conrad Sabatier -- http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads/