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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.nacamar.de!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: What's your favourite news agent? Date: 28 Nov 1996 23:16:39 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 18 Message-ID: <57l6gn$hr0@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <329c6199.2275949@news.zippo.com> <57iv7m$o7d@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E bkogawa@primenet.com (Bryan Ogawa) wrote: > Alternately, you can use Netscape, which most people consider somewhat > inferior for news reading. It *should* have the support for username and > password you require. Uh. Netscape might be good on Web browsing, but it's about as lousy on reading News as `nn' is in browsing WWW. :) Well, i fell in love with `knews' some time ago. This made me finally switch over from the text-based trn to an X11-based newsreader. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)