Hi, You were asking about text mail readers but wanna use them for news as well. Mutt is great for e-mail but I can't see how one could read news with it. I'm not saying it's impossible, but I've never seen it done. When I used to use pine, I recall it could double up as a news reader. So I would imagine that you could do the same with alpine since it forked of from pine as I remember. With mutt, the cursor tracks right along with the current selection in the message and alias lists without any special settings. While inside a message body, I use the review functions to read the message text. I generally love mutt for efficient digesting of my e-mails. It is so powerful just from a stand point of usage with its ability to tag messages for later processing, IMAP support and easy integration with externals editors and pgp. I use thunderbird while in gnome to more easily work with some web content but I just find mutt to be so much faster to use.
