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From: Kyonshi <gmkeros@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Free / opensource text-only reader for linux - suggestions,
 please?
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2024 15:55:40 +0200
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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.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> But what about client?
>>>>>>
>>>>> I like slrn
>>>>
>>>> I do too. I can pick Jstar (WordStar variant of JOE) as my editor.
>>>> That sold me.
>>>
>>> It's so strange to me -- anytime anyone asks what Usenet is, slrn is
>>> always, uniformly, what comes to mind.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>>    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.
>>
>>> Slrn, always, forever. It is usenet. Hasta la slrn siempre.
>>
>>    Nah, it's tin, The Ideal Newsreader! :-)
> 
> 
> Eh, tin is interesting but I prefer the visual thread display that slrn
> has.

maybe I finally should try out slrn