Newsreaders

Nice to know though.

 

I'm probably going to regret this but...

I use Pan newsreader http://pan.rebelbase.com/ in linux but before you
start flaming there is a Windows version. You need to install the gtk+
libraries for Windows too.

Please note that I haven't tried it in its Windows incarnation but under
Gnome it rocks. One very useful feature is to ignore on the basis of
cross-post count which cuts out a lot of the trolls and spam.

The best thing of all is that it is open-source and completely free.
Agent users should find the interface familiar.

Hope this helps.

 

Has that seen any recent development?

<checks site>

Indeed, latest beta from 2007, so something's actually happening.

There are several other good readers out there in Open Sauce land that
fulfill this requirement. Not sure about their Windows availability,
though. I know that the one I'm writing this in is available on pretty
much every OS known to man, and it is Open Source as well.

 

..10 has some bugs with thread colouring - I went back to .8

 

Yes, the various linux distros are including it in their repositories and
tweaking it to suit AAUI. Not sure which version mint is currently
supplying as I'm in windows now trying out the one I posted a link to. gtk
+ seems to be included in the installer, a I haven't had to get them
separately. Haven't tried adding aspell yet though.

yebbut emacs is scary!

 

Well, it's the "various distributions tweaked it" bit that I'm
developing a dislike for at the moment. I've got to port some anti-spam
config from one server to another and thanks to Debian's wonderful idea
of splitting the config file eight ways, I actually have to go and edit
the fuckers instead of just copying the file across. Fucking annoyed, I
am.

Unfortunately one issue with Unix-on-Windows that you tend to get is
getting the nice little stuff like background spelling running
properly.

Only if you're afraid of the Dark Side. At least I've got working
background spell checks with aspell (but I'm not on Windows...)

 

That's what I was on about. Everything is pink or nothing.

I downloaded the source code with a mind to fix it, but the sight of pascal code makes me
want to be sick.

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On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 22:13:47 +0100, Wicked Uncle Nigel

She's up the duff so her hormones will be shot - this could be your
time!

 

how do you cope with the amount of spam on there? one time this week I
had to search for the real threads.
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I don't seem to be having any such issues here.

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