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From: brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: What's your favourite news agent?
Date: 29 Nov 1996 01:58:59 -0000
Organization: Coverform Ltd.
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In article <329c6199.2275949@news.zippo.com>,
wexler@inter.net.il (Enoch Wexler) writes:
: Hi Fellows,
:
: Do you have at this FreeBSD wonderland a news agent comparable with
: Windows Forte's Agent?
:
: I seem to have trouble with "tin". My remote news server asks for a
: user name and password. "tin" only takes a password and is probably
: using my login name automatically (which is inappropriate).
As a news reader, knews (for X) does everything agent does.
Bear in mind though, agent does other things like taking the job of the
news server and merging it with that of the reader to support the idea
of marking articles for retrieval and later retrieving them. It also does
mail reading.....
I don't know of any unix readers that also play server. Netscape
(available for unix) will read your mail - but I wouldn't really call
it a news reader :(
--
Brian <brian%anorak.coverform.lan@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
.