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

On 2024-03-28, RodionGork <rodion_gork@mail.ru> 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.
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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).
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But what about client?
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1. I'm linux user so it should be available for linux
2. It shouldn't necessarily be mail client for its main purpose (I tried
claws but feel unsure about it for that sake)
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.
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I guess it is definitely possible to try downloading this and that and
something more and try setting them up etc - but perhaps someone with
similar situation can direct me with advice according to personal
experience? thanks in advance!

I currently use slrn (text). Before that I used Pan (gui). Both are news
clients only. Both use basically the same killfile (score file) system.

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