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Usenet clients: knode, other

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On 2014-03-21, Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> wrote:
> On Thursday 20 March 2014 22:32, john conveyed the following to comp.misc...
>
>> Now I wish someone would rejuvenate KNode. Or at least fix some long
>> standing bugs. What GUI usenet client are y'all using?
>
> KNode here.  Longstanding user.  It's got bugs - indeed - but I like
> it's look & feel.  I've tried Pan - which definitely has more fans
> than KNode - but I hate Pan.  Well, lately I'm not big a fan on
> anything GTK- based anymore, except for GIMP.
>
> Sylpheed Claws is also quite popular, but that's not strictly speaking
> a newsreader, as it does e-mail too.  Many GNU/Linux and/or *BSD users
> also use Thunderbird, but that one has the same problem: it's not a
> dedicated newsreader.  And the same thing again for Opera Mail.
>

Not clear to me what you'd mean by 'rejuvenate.'  I thought it was in
active development?  And I don't see immediately much of anything I wish
it had in addition - it's got pretty decent filters, sorting, etc.
Maybe better search?  I can only imagine they're hoping Nepomuk/Akonadi
will take care of search on all KDE apps' behalf.  My only personal
gripe is that when they went from KDE3 to KDE4 (I think), Knode lost the
ability to cause the individual panels to float, or you could move them
around.  I used to like somewhat non-traditional panel arrangements
(groups in top left, messages on bottom left, and message viewer the
entire right side, for example) and you can no longer do that.  I still
get that functionality running an old SUSE distro in a VM.

As for Pan, same comment: I'm convinced the version they put out in
about 2000-2001 was about as good as it got.  I still use it from time
to time, but never really 'like' it.  I also like back in the day, their
killfiles were called "bozo filters."  That's exactly how I use them.

These days SLRN is my preference, though I've never liked the fact that
once you've read a message, it's gone unless you "un-catch up" the
group.  Other than that, SLRN + vim is very nice.

Aragorn, you're absolutely right about operamail, sylpheed, etc.  I
guess the Rolls Royce of news readers is gnus.  I've played with a bit
and found it more powerful than any other newreader I've ever seen.  But
I haven't done the homework to use it properly yet, so it has sort of
scared me off.  I wasn't even able to get aliases to work properly, for
example, and that's just a starting point.

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          Usenet clients: knode, other RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-21 09:03 +0000
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