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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: Sun, 31 Mar 2024 05:15:58 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2024-03-30, 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.

Never even thought of it that way before. I just know I'm happy with slrn.

> Slrn, always, forever. It is usenet. Hasta la slrn siempre.

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