OK, I am still struggling with constaits of Linux news-readers. You see I
usually grab binaries in Pine and must pipe in the raw to uudeview because for
the last 8years they are yenc encoded. For just reading or pairing down, I
really like trn. Limitations, especially in binaries, pine will handle around
10thousand articles, while I cannot seem to load a news-group in trn with
1million articles. My friend runs xnews in windows--and-it will handle a large
amount, however, there seems no linux version of xnews--and-running in wine
would not give me speech in a console.
We have also tried some of those commandline only programs such as bnr but
even running a search of a news-group bombed out.
So why are their seemingly no linux/unix news/usenet applications which are
robust enough to handle today's load? Or how easy would it be to write one?
Actually, why wouldn't I be able to login with an ncftp program to an nntp
server--and-grab articles? In an ideal world, other than a web interface such
as what easynews has, an ftp type would be seemingly perfect, as we would not
be loading all headers-and-articles in at once.
I not only have an account in easynews, but run GigaNews in nntp.
I really hope some of you have wonderful suggestions--and-thanks so much in
advance
Hart
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