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From: conrads@dolphin.neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier)
Newsgroups: news.software.readers,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: UNIX remote NNTP newsreader suggestions needed
Date: 23 Jun 1996 23:55:45 GMT
Organization: What?  Me, organize?
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Message-ID: <4qkli1$jmd@uuneo.neosoft.com>
References: <4qa4vm$dp6@uuneo.neosoft.com> <slrn4sjton.r0.cbbrowne@dantzig.nodomain.nowhere> <4qfa00$q4_002@mypc.neosoft.com> <Pine.NEB.3.93.960622011951.254A-100000@tomqnx.tomqnx.com>
Reply-To: conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier)
NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.27.165.132
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In article <Pine.NEB.3.93.960622011951.254A-100000@tomqnx.tomqnx.com>,
Tom Torrance at home  <tom@tomqnx.com> wrote:
>Actually, I find 'pine' to be a really DANDY newsreader.

Oh, it's *useable*, yes.  But nowhere near as feature-packed as trn.  
Why, just the navigation features alone in trn leave pine in the dust.

I've solved all of my problems with trn, by the way.  The nntpclient 
package did the trick.
-- 
Conrad Sabatier -- http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads