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From: plunky@skate.demon.co.uk (Iain Hibbert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,demon.tech.unix
Subject: Re: Workstation Reading News
Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,demon.tech.unix
Date: 1 Oct 1995 17:39:24 +0100
Organization: The Bath Room
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Gary Palmer <gary@palmer.demon.co.uk> 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. If you want to use xrn, I believe that you'll

does xvnews not count?   I can't vouch for reliability or usefulness, but I
thought it was one of the FreeBSD ports (I'm sure I got it from the BSDisc,
could be wrong though)

some people even like to use Netscape to read news, which is sort of freely
available..

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