On 24 January 2003, Larry W. Virden wrote: : I use trn because it does what I want it to - message selection files : (aka KILL files) with regular expressions that I can use to select : messages that I do or do not want to see, ascii only interface (so I can : use it via telnet sessions), relatively fast (except for some of my : stupider kill files...), only crashes once every 6 months or so... Those are my reasons, except it never crashes on me. trn was the first news reader I ever used, and none of the others I've tried have appealed to me as much, whether because of the interface, the difficulty compiling in my home direectory on a box where I don't have root, or whatever. I hope development continues! Bill -- William Denton : Toronto, Canada : http://www.miskatonic.org/ : Caveat lector. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com