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From: J. Howard Benson <hbenson@polarnet.fnsb.ak.us>
Newsgroups: news.software.readers,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Simplenews-0.2  released
Date: 19 May 1997 08:01:05 GMT
Organization: PolarNet
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Message-ID: <5lp1c1$5ff@news2.cais.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: 204.119.15.74
X-Newsreader: SimpleNews-0.2  Linux/alpha
Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au news.software.readers:38802 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:6889

The second release of SimpleNews, a non-threaded newsreader based on
the ncurses library for Linux and BSDI is available.

  - accesses multiple servers easily
  - filters excessively cross-posted articles
  - simple user interface
  - full source available
  - context sensitive help
  - history file support - read from multiple servers and groups,
    see only unread articles.

Several new features have been added and numerous bugs have been
fixed since the last release.

The source distribution is available at this URL:

    http://www2.polarnet.com/~hbenson/


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J. Howard Benson <hbenson@polarnet.fnsb.ak.us>     Fairbanks, Alaska

http://www2.polarnet.com/~hbenson    -    home of simplenews
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