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

On Wed, 3 Apr 2024 15:00:10 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07
<candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote in
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Kyonshi <gmkeros@gmail.com> wrote at 13:55 this Wednesday (GMT):

On 4/1/2024 5:16 PM, candycanearter07 wrote:

Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> wrote at 13:45 this Sunday (GMT):

dgold <d@gold.invalid> wrote:

On 2024-03-28, RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> wrote:

On 2024-03-28, candycanearter07
<candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:

RodionGork <rodion_gork@mail.ru> wrote at 06:33 this Thursday (GMT):

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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But what about client?
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I like slrn

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I do too. I can pick Jstar (WordStar variant of JOE) as my editor.
That sold me.

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It's so strange to me -- anytime anyone asks what Usenet is, slrn is
always, uniformly, what comes to mind.
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I'm editing this in Vim; Ron edited his answer in Jstar; CC07 could have
used nano or emacs or whatever -- the point remains: slrn just makes it
all possible.

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   Same for tin. Just define your favourite editor - in my case (since
over four decades) vim - in your tinrc file. Forcing a user to use a
particular editor is rather silly.
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Slrn, always, forever. It is usenet. Hasta la slrn siempre.

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   Nah, it's tin, The Ideal Newsreader! :-)

 
 
Eh, tin is interesting but I prefer the visual thread display that slrn
has.

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maybe I finally should try out slrn

 
 
It's pretty good.

Pan ain't bad either -- and it's in active development.

Another version bump just came down the pipe.  They've been working
on generating the Makefiles with cmake (but Autoconf still works).

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