With the (relative) burst of traffic on this mailing list, I thought I'd ask folks the question in the message subject. The old farts among us can remember the ancient days when trn was unseating tin as the newsreader of choice (at least that's the switch I made), but these days I'd guess that among people who used text-based newsreaders in a *nix environment, slrn has >90% of the usage. Just checking news.software.readers on my server right now, I see 134 posts about slrn and 1 about trn. I try out slrn every now and then but never seem to get captivated by it. It doesn't seem to have the lightning-fast ability to select, deselect, and junk using regex expressions on a variety of criteria that trn4 has. (Maybe I'm wrong; I've never explored all of slrn's feature set.) I don't like split-window display of newsgroup subjects and message text, so I'm happy with a program that is either at group level or in the article text. And of course I'm lazy enough not to want to switch if there's no strong reason to. Others? -- David Sewell, Managing Editor Electronic Imprint, The University of Virginia Press PO Box 400318, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4318 USA Courier: 310 Old Ivy Way, Suite 302, Charlottesville VA 22903 Email: dsewell@virginia.edu Tel: +1 434 924 9973 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Scholarships for Techies! Can't afford IT training? All 2003 ictp students receive scholarships. Get hands-on training in Microsoft, Cisco, Sun, Linux/UNIX, and more. www.ictp.com/training/sourceforge.asp
