Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!UMCVMB.MISSOURI.EDU!C506634
From: C506634@UMCVMB.MISSOURI.EDU (Eric Edwards)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Alternate news readers
Message-ID: <900923.015641.CDT.C506634@umcvmb.missouri.edu>
Date: 23 Sep 90 06:56:41 GMT
Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
Organization: Hackers Without Hard Drives
Lines: 28

A few months ago I saw a posting for a news reader
"comming soon to a comp.binaries.amiga near you"  What happened to it?  I've
been using Dnews for a couple of months and my initial elation over being
able to read news on my Amiga is wearing thin.  This is partially because of
the following:

1) The kill feature of Dnews is rather Utopian.  For a kill to work in the
   real world I need to be able to kill subjects, not just Message ID's.

2) I rather like to use the mouse, in general, but after using the keyboard
   for all reading operations it is a pain to have to grab the mouse and
   move some windows arround just to get to the next newsgroup.

3) Dnews wants to write it's config file in s:  I don't let anybody write to
   s:  That's on my workbench disk and I keep it write protected.

4) The followup, include article doesn't seem to work.  All that gets included
   is >In message-ID blah ....
   I don't get the actual article.

5) Dnews won't add a newsgroup if the *.dnewsrc exists.

So, is there a good alternative to Dnews?  Has Dnews been updated since the
1.06D release of UUCP?

Eric Edwards: c506634 @    "The 3090.  Proof that by applying state of the
Inet: umcvmb.missouri.edu   art technology to an obsolete architecture,
Bitnet: umcvmb.bitnet       one can achieve mediocre performance."