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burt1...@gmail.com
Feb 27, 2012, 1:10:40 PM2/27/12
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I am a very happy thunderbird user having never seriously used another
email client in windows, and with the exception of one cool extension
that doesn't seem to be available finding it just as good in Linux. I
am spending more time on the Linux cmd-line these days however and
wonder what I should use for reading newsgroups in that environment.
I've used Alpine on and off ever since I started using Linux, and have
used Mutt a bit. I'm open to trying something else, but unless there's a
really good reason would just assume use not learn something completely
different. I know that alpine does usenet, and even put account info in
my .pinerc, but don't know where to go from there as far as adding
subscriptions. And no, I've not rtfm on this yet. (kinda want to get
recommendations and tips on usage if needed before starting to do
newsgroups from the command line for the first time since nettamer in
the 90s. I loved nettamer for both e-mail and usenet.
Thanks in advance for any ideas.
p
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Burt
email client in windows, and with the exception of one cool extension
that doesn't seem to be available finding it just as good in Linux. I
am spending more time on the Linux cmd-line these days however and
wonder what I should use for reading newsgroups in that environment.
I've used Alpine on and off ever since I started using Linux, and have
used Mutt a bit. I'm open to trying something else, but unless there's a
really good reason would just assume use not learn something completely
different. I know that alpine does usenet, and even put account info in
my .pinerc, but don't know where to go from there as far as adding
subscriptions. And no, I've not rtfm on this yet. (kinda want to get
recommendations and tips on usage if needed before starting to do
newsgroups from the command line for the first time since nettamer in
the 90s. I loved nettamer for both e-mail and usenet.
Thanks in advance for any ideas.
p
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Burt
Jim Hicks
Feb 29, 2012, 11:42:10 AM2/29/12
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On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 12:10:40 -0600, burt1...@gmail.com wrote:
> I am a very happy thunderbird user having never seriously used another
> email client in windows, and with the exception of one cool extension
> that doesn't seem to be available finding it just as good in Linux. I
> am spending more time on the Linux cmd-line these days however and
> wonder what I should use for reading newsgroups in that environment.
> I've used Alpine on and off ever since I started using Linux, and have
> used Mutt a bit. I'm open to trying something else, but unless there's a
> really good reason would just assume use not learn something completely
> different. I know that alpine does usenet,...
> I am a very happy thunderbird user having never seriously used another
> email client in windows, and with the exception of one cool extension
> that doesn't seem to be available finding it just as good in Linux. I
> am spending more time on the Linux cmd-line these days however and
> wonder what I should use for reading newsgroups in that environment.
> I've used Alpine on and off ever since I started using Linux, and have
> used Mutt a bit. I'm open to trying something else, but unless there's a
> really good reason would just assume use not learn something completely
Bear in mind that I have reasonable eyesight.
I use 'mutt' for electronic mail, and 'trn4' for reading Usenet. I have not
tried 'alpine'.
I like trn4 because I'm used to 'trn' and it does what I want most of the
time. Also I'm just too set in my ways to use anything else (smirk).
'slrn' still seems to be popular. 'tin' used to be very well regarded,
but I'm not sure that it's so popular now.
I don't know how well these programs work with screen readers, but I hope
this provides some ideas.
(Yes, I know this is posted using Pan. But the question was about command
line programs.)
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Jim Hicks
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