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From: William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca>
Newsgroups: news.software.readers
Subject: Re: [slrn] A farewell to the remaining slrn mafia
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2025 04:40:38 -0000 (UTC)
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I am still using slrn. No reason not to since it work quickly and well.
(On Linux mind you not windows.) 
Using it with eternal-september as my (free) netnews source. 
Not sure why you do not just switch to that, rather than abandoning
Usenet.

On 2025-07-03, andrew <andrew@skamandros.invalid> wrote:
> My subscription with individual.net is coming up for renewal soon and
> after many, many years on Usenet, and in particular here on NSR, I will
> be allowing it to lapse. Time to move on and take only positive memories
> of my time here.
>
> I will leave my guide to compiling slrn under Windows in place for a
> little longer:
>
> slrn and Windows 10...
> https://www.andrews-corner.org/slrn-windows.html
>
> I am not sure if anyone ever actually used this guide but I had a huge
> amount of fun putting it together :). And a huge amount of time when I
> rewrote the slrn web site all those years ago...
>
> Are there many of the old time slrn users left here? And if so what are
> your future plans on Usenet and NSR?
>
> Andrew