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From: Cryptoengineer <petertrei@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Looking for USENET client recommendations for Windows
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2025 10:44:30 -0500
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On 1/13/2025 10:04 PM, Mike Van Pelt wrote:
> In article <vm3kpd$1vknb$1@dont-email.me>,
> Bice Eichler  <eichler2@comcast.net> wrote:
>> What I'm looking for is newsgroup reader software that:
>> - runs in Windows
>> - works with Eternal-September's server
>> - can handle large unread message counts
>> - can offload unread messages to a single text file
>>
>> That last one is key. I used to download unread messages and use Agent's
>> Save to File feature and it would make one nice big text file with a
> 
> I do old-school -- trn 4.1.  I'm running it right now in
> "Windows Subsystem for Linux" in a bash shell on a Windows
> machine, so it "runs on Windows" for certain definitions of
> the term.
> 
> Works with Eternal-September's server, obviously, that's how
> I'm posting this.
> 
> I've never run into any issue with large message counts.
> 
> I'd never tried offloading messages to a single text file,
> but I just tried it out.  Mark the messages you want to save
> to the file, then :w <file name>.
> 
> It's a threaded newsreader (though you can turn off the
> threading if you want) and it has The Most Powerful
> Kill File feature of any Usenet reader in existence.
> (If there are any better ones, I've never encountered
> them.)  It's fast to kill messages by from or subject,
> a bit slower to kill by anything in the content of the
> message or headers.  I've used this on the sci.astro
> group to kill any message crossposted to the flat
> earth group, and back when miscreants were maliciously
> crossposting spam to many groups, I could kill messages
> crossposted to three or more groups.

Out of curiosity, I build trn from source a few years ago.
Took a little effort but it worked fine.

pt