Larry, Have you tried slrn? Hart Larry writes: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list -- Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.443.300.2200 sip:janina@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Chair, Open Accessibility janina@xxxxxxxx Linux Foundation http://a11y.org Chair, Protocols & Formats Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/wai/pf World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list