Re: Free / opensource text-only reader for linux - suggestions, please?

On 28.03.2024 um 06:33 Uhr RodionGork wrote:

Hi Friends and sorry for such a trivial and perhaps frequently-asked
question. I haven't imagined it may be that difficult - seemingly
there are or were many flavors of readers but among them many
non-free or for windows or not supported anymore.
 
So the situation is like this - I recently joined UseNet (though I
was in Fido couple decades ago so the concept is not completely new
to me) communicating currently via NovaBBS, but as I understand it
provides me access to few hundreds groups and to post to some more
which are of interest to me I need to pick nntp server and client. As
for servers there seemingly are some free for text-only groups which
is enough for me (e.g. I read about i2pn2.org at the same novabbs).
 
But what about client?
 
1. I'm linux user so it should be available for linux

There is a list of clients, e.g. translate that German article.
https://th-h.de/archives/faqs/newsreader-faq.txt

2. It shouldn't necessarily be mail client for its main purpose (I
tried claws but feel unsure about it for that sake)

I use that since I started using usenet.

3. It would be good if it is lightweight enough (Thunderbird seems a
bit too fat already but not too much if you say it is definitely the
best choice).

4. It would be all right if it is works in text-mode
lacking fancy features for handling images and videos etc.

tin, slrn, trn exist.

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kind regards
Marco

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