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| From | Adrian Caspersz <email@here.invalid> |
| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.hardware |
| Subject | Re: NewsRover |
| Date | Thu, 17 Nov 2016 17:17:33 +0000 |
| Organization | Keep Usenet Newsgroups Alive!! |
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On 17/11/16 10:07, dlbendigo wrote: > A customised version of NewsRover for Windows is > available from Thundernews. It seems not to allow > subscription to specific lists, but only to topics. It is > a bit like a newsgroup browser. It could be useful > some times, but I don't know of anything similar > for Linux. Run it on Wine. Those programs are focused on topics as their main aim is downloading software shared in the posts, not actually taking part in discussion. For a time (or probably still, I haven't looked) this dodgy software sharing aspect was was the main attraction of usenet. -- Adrian C
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NewsRover dlbendigo <laidlaws@hotkey.net.au> - 2016-11-17 21:07 +1100
Re: NewsRover Adrian Caspersz <email@here.invalid> - 2016-11-17 17:17 +0000
Re: NewsRover Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2016-11-19 12:01 -0500
Re: NewsRover Adrian Caspersz <email@here.invalid> - 2016-11-29 23:12 +0000
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