Posted by Bill Vermillion on 01/29/07 22:25

In article <45b54134$0$9628$4c368faf@roadrunner.com>,
AnthonyR <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:
>
>"MassiveProng" <MassiveProng@thebarattheendoftheuniverse.org> wrote in
>message news:bqtqq25ddkv3l8k703v1kdsd5ocb8vekcs@4ax.com...
>> On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 17:17:47 -0500, "AnthonyR" <nospam@nospam.com>
>> Gave us:
>>
>>>So top posting is counter intuitive to how the
>>>original system was designed to be used and read.
>>
>> No... It is NOT.
>>
>> OE is NOT "the original system", and you do NOT know (obviously) how
>> the original system was designed to be used and read.
>>
>
>That's what I said, top posting is counter intuitive in outlook
>express(which is what I am using).
>And I agree it is NOT what newsreaders where designed for.
>
>By the way, can you recommend a real newsreader I can try on Linux, I see
>there are a quite a few available.
>I'll give it a go. :)

>AnthonyR.

There are many - if you run in text mode I can recommend trn - the
threaded version of rn. And there is nn. There is even a
newsreader in emacs, but that is not for the faint of heart as the
learning curve on emacs is a bit steep.

pine is pretty much deprecated. There are plenty of newsreaders
for X based systems too. There is also tin, slrn and others.

Probalby you should look at the READMEs for them, and make your
choice on what looks best, try it out, and if you don't like move
on to another one. Since they are all open-source the only thing
you lose is time.

Bill

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