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From: sadg@cucumber.demon.co.uk (Andrew Gabriel)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,demon.tech.unix
Subject: Re: Workstation Reading News
Date: 1 Oct 1995 12:55:41 GMT
Organization: home
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Message-ID: <44m34d$dl@cucumber.demon.co.uk>
References: <300871056wnr@falstaf.demon.co.uk> <44l78s$32q@palmer.demon.co.uk>
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X-NNTP-Posting-Host: cucumber.demon.co.uk
X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.0
In article <44l78s$32q@palmer.demon.co.uk>,
gary@palmer.demon.co.uk (Gary Palmer) writes:
>
> The third piece of s/w you'll need is a newsreader. There is only one freely
> available X based news reader that I know of, and that is xrn, which doesn't
> seem to exist as a port yet.
Other X based newsreaders are:
Mosaic 2.6 or later
Netscape (shareware, and not available for many platforms; I don't know
about FreeBSD not being a user myself)
knews
All are threaded readers (I don't think xrn is).
My preference at the moment is knews, although it's very new and a bit
rough round the edges.
Personally, I think being threaded is more important than being X based;
there are non-X based readers you might consider too.
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Andrew Gabriel Home: Andrew@cucumber.demon.co.uk
Consultant Software Engineer Work: Andrew.Gabriel@net-tel.co.uk