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From: RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: news.software.readers
Subject: Re: Free / opensource text-only reader for linux - suggestions,
 please?
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 22:00:23 -0000 (UTC)
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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.
>
> 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).
>
> But what about client?
>
> 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.
>
> 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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