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From: conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier)
Newsgroups: news.software.readers,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: UNIX remote NNTP newsreader suggestions needed
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 96 23:07:44 GMT
Organization: What?  Me, organize?
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Message-ID: <4qfa00$q4_002@mypc.neosoft.com>
References: <4qa4vm$dp6@uuneo.neosoft.com> <31CA0B74.5AAC@www.play-hookey.com> <slrn4sjton.r0.cbbrowne@dantzig.nodomain.nowhere>
NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.27.165.144
X-Newsreader: News Xpress 2.0 Beta #1
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In article <slrn4sjton.r0.cbbrowne@dantzig.nodomain.nowhere>, cbbrowne@conline.com wrote:
>In article <31CA0B74.5AAC@www.play-hookey.com>, Ken Bigelow wrote:
>
>I don't know about your results with Netscape...  I find it about as
>brittle and prone to crash as any MS product.  (Happily, under Linux
>and other UNIX-like OSes when a process does a segmentation violation,
>it *doesn't* hose the machine.)
>
>slrn seems to fit the bill; I *was* using strn (scoring version trn), 
>which was taking a *lot* of time even just to load up individual news
>groups.
>
>slrn looks for *new* newsgroups, but doesn't load the whole list.
>
>It appears to be somewhat optimized for use with slow connections;
>the designers had 14.4K in mind rather than 28.8.
>
>I've been pretty happy with slrn.

Thanks, but I'd really like to stick with trn, so I can try out Tim Pierce's 
Nifty Killfile Technology(c).  :-)

I just grabbed the mthreads package.  Maybe that'll help.  We'll see.

-- 
Conrad Sabatier -- http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads/