Re: News reader?

On 2023-10-27, Retro Guy <retro.guy@rocksolidbbs.com> wrote:

Sn!pe wrote:
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Ian gay <gay@sfu.ca> wrote:

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db wrote:
 

I used to use pan and was happy with it, but it started acting
up about a year or so ago, so I can no longer use it. I switched
to Thunderbird (I work under Ubuntu Linux) and it's OK, but not
as nice, I feel.
Does anyone know what is wrong with pan?
What other news readers are recommended?

 
Am I the only one in the world who uses knode? Years ago I decided I
like it better than pan, but I don't remember the reasons.

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I really liked Knode. As KDE does, they have removed it (unsupported) and
it's gone from Debian repos. Seems many think, "just use Thunderbird for
news", but it's not a good newsreader in my opinion.
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I used Knode 20 years ago and liked it.  I liked the original Pan of
that time too, but the modern rewrite of Pan was too full of problems
for me to persevere with it.

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Pan was nice, but now it doesn't show buttons on windows for me, and other
problems. I've given up on Pan now.
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I'm using Sylpheed, which I like, but I find it irritating when it checks
groups while you're reading a message, then that message gets marked as read,
and disappears from the headers (using Show Unread). Going back to look for
it is a pain. Other than that, it's not too bad.
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Slrn it's fine. On Debian GNU/Linux and libre and non-libre derivatives such
as Ubuntu, there's slrnface. If you copy /usr/share/slrn/macros/slrnface.sl
to ~/.slrn/slrnface.sl and edit ~/.slrnrc with this line:

interpret "/home/USER/.slrn/slrnface.sl"

where USER it's your real username,

you will see X-Faces inline if you use a desktop or
window manager under X.