Posted by Justin on 01/03/06 20:48

Stephen Adams wrote on [3 Jan 2006 19:53:34 GMT]:
> Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> writes:
>
>>In article <41u2d9F1ggtnqU1@individual.net>,
>> Giles <usenet.giles@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> > This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
>>>
>>> On usenet. Lovely.
>>
>>One nice thing about MT NewsWatcher is that it strips out all but the
>>plain text portion of multipart MIME messages.
>
> Some of us still use text-based newsreaders. :-) I love nn - it's
> fast, menu-driven, text-only and available via ssh to my server.

check out slrn

> I've tried some GUI readers and none of them match the simplicity,
> ease of use and speed I can get from nn.

Yep. There's something to be said from a text and keyboard only based
interface for messaging.

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