OT: Recommended news reader?

[Miki Tebeka]

Hello All,

Which news reader do you recommend?
Currently I use Google Groups and find it a bit to dull.

Thanks.
Miki

 

[Scott F]

(e-mail address removed) (Miki Tebeka) wrote in

Which news reader do you recommend?
Currently I use Google Groups and find it a bit to dull.

On Windows, try Xnews.

http://xnews.newsguy.com/

 

[Gerrit Holl]

Which news reader do you recommend?
Currently I use Google Groups and find it a bit to dull.

What Operating System?

Note that you can also read it through a list (python-list), which is
what I'm doing, reading it with mutt.

As newsreader I prefer SLRN.

Gerrit.

 

[Bud Rogers]

Which news reader do you recommend?
Currently I use Google Groups and find it a bit to dull.

That's right up there with which editor do you recommend. If you like
[x]emacs, you might like gnus. If you like KDE, knode is pretty nice.

 

[Josiah Carlson]

Which news reader do you recommend?

Currently I use Google Groups and find it a bit to dull.

Mozilla Thunderbird
http://mozilla.org

 

[simo]

RISC OS: Pluto

Windows: Forte Agent (certainly not Gemini or Outlook)

UNIX: Mozilla Thunderbird

 

[Bjoern Paschen]

Which news reader do you recommend?

On Windows i would say 'Forte Free Agent'. Its really nice.
On Linux i use 'Pan'.

 

[Nick Vargish]

Which news reader do you recommend?

Gnus.

But, like Unix, it's not for everyone. If you already use (X)Emacs,
the learning curve is quite reasonable.

http://my.gnus.org
http://www.gnus.org

Nick

 

[Thomas Heller]

Gnus.

But, like Unix, it's not for everyone. If you already use (X)Emacs,
the learning curve is quite reasonable.

I'm a very happy XEmacs user (although I'm mostly on Windows), but it
seems gnus really takes its time to master.

But I was very astonished to see that no other mail/news client I have
examined allows customizing the From: address depending on the folder or
group you are currently in. Can that really be true?

Thomas

 

[Carmine Noviello]

Hello All,

Which news reader do you recommend?
Currently I use Google Groups and find it a bit to dull.

Thanks.
Miki

Try XPN

xpn.altervista.org

It's a new newsreader full written in Python.

Bye

 

[Cameron Laird]

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I'm a very happy XEmacs user (although I'm mostly on Windows), but it
seems gnus really takes its time to master.

But I was very astonished to see that no other mail/news client I have
examined allows customizing the From: address depending on the folder or
group you are currently in. Can that really be true?

Thomas

I didn't know that "From:" *could* be customized through
common configurations. Does anyone know how to set it
with trn(1)? I'm not even asking for switches between
groups; just correcting my domain name to its correct
public form from whatever it is now would be a good first
step.

 

[Bert Hyman]

(e-mail address removed) (Cameron Laird) wrote in

I didn't know that "From:" *could* be customized through
common configurations. Does anyone know how to set it
with trn(1)?

Does "trn" still post through the external "Pnews" program? If so,
you can edit your post before sending it to include a "From:" header
of your liking and the server ->should accept it.

The last time I saw it, Pnews was a Bourne shell program, so you
could find the copy on your system, copy it and change it any way you
like.

 

[Mark Jackson]

(e-mail address removed) (Cameron Laird) wrote in



Does "trn" still post through the external "Pnews" program? If so,
you can edit your post before sending it to include a "From:" header
of your liking and the server ->should accept it.

Not that more than a handful of folks still use it, but: the
OpenWindows newsreader xvnews respects both MAIL_ALIAS and DOMAIN
environment variables: From: MAIL_ALIAS@DOMAIN.

 

[Paul Tomblin]

In a previous article, (e-mail address removed) said:

I didn't know that "From:" *could* be customized through
common configurations. Does anyone know how to set it
with trn(1)? I'm not even asking for switches between

Assuming you're using one of the 4.0 versions of trn, in your .trn/trnrc:

NEWSHEADER='Newsgroups: %(%F=^$?%C:%F)
From: %[email protected] (%N)
Reply-To: %[email protected] (%N)
Subject: %(%S=^$?%"\\n\\nSubject: ":Re: %S)
%(%R=^$?:References: %R
)Organization: %o
%(%D=^$?istribution: %D
)Followup-To:\\n\\n'

 

[Aahz]

(e-mail address removed) (Cameron Laird) wrote in


Does "trn" still post through the external "Pnews" program? If so,
you can edit your post before sending it to include a "From:" header
of your liking and the server ->should accept it.

The last time I saw it, Pnews was a Bourne shell program, so you
could find the copy on your system, copy it and change it any way you
like.

That's exactly what I do, though it's also simple enough to change the
From: line manually.
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classes that express a lot of action in a small amount of clear code --
not in reams of trivial code that bores the reader to death." --GvR

 

[JanC]

But I was very astonished to see that no other mail/news client I have
examined allows customizing the From: address depending on the folder or
group you are currently in. Can that really be true?

You never looked at Xnews ?

 

[Thomas Heller]

You never looked at Xnews ?

No, I need imap as well as nntp.

Thomas

 

[Hartmut Goebel]

Hi,

But I was very astonished to see that no other mail/news client I have
examined allows customizing the From: address depending on the folder or
group you are currently in. Can that really be true?

KMail, KDE's mail client supports this.

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Schönen Gruß
Hartmut Goebel

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[JanC]

No, I need imap as well as nntp.

Why not use a dedicated client for each?


BTW: you can read IMAP & POP3 mailboxes with Xnews + Hamster AFAIK.

 

[Josiah Carlson]

No, I need imap as well as nntp.

Mozilla Thunderbird has both nntp and imap. Have you tried it?

- Josiah