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On NNTP clients and Google Groups (Was: Any interest in CiderPress "port" to Linux?)

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On Monday, July 3, 2017 at 8:16:10 AM UTC-7, Hugh Hood wrote:
> > I ... haven't fully worked out how I'm going to make usenet work for me yet.
> > Google Groups is suboptimal and Linux terminal-based news readers are no
> > t especially fun things to use and get used to using.  I'm probably 16 years
> > away from my long-lost slrn config.  :(
> > 
> 
> Joseph,
> 
> It's good to 'see' you here.
> 
> I might suggest (if it hasn't already been offered) using Thunderbird
> (Mozilla) as your newsreader.
> 
> After having used the newsreader built into 'Entourage' for years on the
> Mac, I had to start using Windows 10 as my main OS, and Thunderbird does a
> nice job for me with the newsgroups.
> 
> Luckily, having been with Earthlink for already 20 years, I get free access
> to their newsgroups servers, but I understand that there are other 'free' or
> low-cost newsgroup servers available.
> 
> I agree with your reserved understatement -- 'Google Groups is suboptimal'.
> 
> Hugh Hood

Suboptimal in my case involves a lot of bright white backgrounds.  I can do it, but reading text on it, especially a lot of text, is difficult and frustrating and the fact is I don't do it much.

When I moved everything to NeoMutt and NeoVim, I kinda started rebuilding my configurations from scratch for email and I kind of never actually finished either.  Did enough NeoVim for my purposes, and eventually just found myself using Google for mail anyway.  They're evil, but I now get about 1000 spam per day.  Yeah.

I doubt mutt is an EXCELLENT news reader, but ... it can thread a conversation at least.  I may make Thunderbird work for me.  The issue there is that I have never been totally happy with dark GTK+ themes, particularly as they tend to break too many form elements in Firefox.  Maybe I can adjust that--unsure.  I tend to spend most of my time in the console.  And there the issue is that while I am aware many NNTP clients exist, most of them have rather high barrier to entry.  The ones that don't (alpine in NNTP mode) have very low functionality.

I just need to take time to do it and I haven't.  :/

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Any interest in CiderPress "port" to Linux? Leeland Heins <leelandheins@gmail.com> - 2017-03-08 11:07 -0800
  Re: Any interest in CiderPress "port" to Linux? Steve Nickolas <usotsuki@buric.co> - 2017-03-08 16:26 -0500
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    Re: Any interest in CiderPress "port" to Linux? Leeland Heins <leelandheins@gmail.com> - 2017-03-08 15:13 -0800
  Re: Any interest in CiderPress "port" to Linux? wade kemp <wadeakemp@gmail.com> - 2017-03-09 16:30 -0800
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          Re: Any interest in CiderPress "port" to Linux? Leeland Heins <leelandheins@gmail.com> - 2017-03-11 13:18 -0800
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              Re: Any interest in CiderPress "port" to Linux? Antoine Vignau <antoine.vignau@laposte.net> - 2017-03-14 14:24 -0700
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    Re: Any interest in CiderPress "port" to Linux? Leeland Heins <leelandheins@gmail.com> - 2017-03-23 14:25 -0700
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          Re: Any interest in CiderPress "port" to Linux? Hugh Hood <hughhood@earthlink.net> - 2017-07-03 10:16 -0500
            On NNTP clients and Google Groups (Was: Any interest in CiderPress "port" to Linux?) carter.tjoseph@gmail.com - 2017-07-06 05:54 -0700
              Re: On NNTP clients and Google Groups (Was: Any interest in CiderPress "port" to Linux?) "T. Joseph Carter" <tjcarter@spiritsubstancecom.dontspam.me> - 2017-07-06 16:11 +0000
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