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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: What usenet client are you using?
Date: 25 Feb 2015 21:16:59 GMT
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On 2015-02-25, Jamie Kahn Genet <jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz> wrote:
> Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>> I use slrn as well, and love it. : )
>
> Before I got an iOS device and bought NewsTap I used to like a command
> line client like tin, because I could easily connect to my home Mac from
> elsewhere and run tin over SSH, with all my preferences. NewsTap may be
> a bit lacking, but since getting it I've not felt the need to 'phone
> home'. Besides, with no syncing between MacSOUP and tin or NewsTap, it's
> not like I save myself any trouble. That would be one reason to switch
> completely to tin - I could run it via SSH with all my prefs, history,
> and saved messages back home, from a terminal app on an iOS device or
> desktop computer.

That's exactly why I prefer slrn. I used to use MT-NewsWatcher's "Shared
newsrc" feature to share my newsrc file via FTP, which allowed me to run
MT-NW on any machine on my LAN, or even outside of my LAN, to read news
with all read counts and so on synchronized. Now that I can't use MT-NW,
I use slrn, which only requires an SSH connection in a terminal window,
which I am very comfortable with and usually have open anyway. As a
bonus, all of my score settings and editor settings are also now shared
among any machine I use to access slrn. I can even use a WYSIWYG editor
like TextWrangler to write posts if I like, complete with automatic
correction, spell checking, and so on (though I prefer vim). It
certainly ain't for everyone, but for someone like me who is at home on
the command line, it's great. : )

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JR