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From: RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Free / opensource text-only reader for linux - suggestions,
 please?
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2024 02:48:59 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2024-03-29, candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:
> Bud Frede <frede@mouse-potato.com> wrote at 19:09 this Friday (GMT):
>> Marco Moock <mm+usenet-es@dorfdsl.de> writes:
>>
>>> On 28.03.2024 um 06:33 Uhr RodionGork wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> 4. It would be all right if it is works in text-mode
>>>> lacking fancy features for handling images and videos etc.
>>>
>>> tin, slrn, trn exist.
>>
>> I've used all 3, and actually used slrn for a number of years. I finally
>> decided to jump into gnus though, and once I did I wish I had done it
>> years earlier.
>>
>> I had found that things like tin, trn, and slrn each had limitations for
>> me. Sometimes there were workarounds and sometimes not. With gnus, every
>> time I wondered about a feature, I found it was already there or there
>> was an easy way of making gnus do that.
>>
>> I feel that gnus is the most capable and flexible newsreader, and I'd
>> find it hard to go back to anything else.
>
>
> GNUs certainly seems interesting, but I also don't want to go down the
> emacs route.

I'm too old to (want to) learn another one and I like using slrn with Jstar.

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