[ale] what news reader/poster

[whyknot at mindspring.com (Joe Knapka)]

Geoffrey Myers wrote:
> 
> Just curious as to what news reader/poster folks use.  I currently use
> trn and Pnews, but they seem terribly slow.  Any recommendations?

I currently use Gnus under xemacs, and sometimes Netscape's news reader.
Gnus requires some tweaking to work well on a slow connection, but if
you like emacs, Gnus is really cool. The Netscape (> 2.x) newsreader is
pretty good, too, in my opinion, although I've seen it bashed a bit
by other folks. I've use tin and trn and nn in the past, and wouldn't
go back to them unless I was heavily bribed.

-- Joe

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