Xref: utzoo comp.sources.wanted:4731 comp.unix.questions:8611 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!littlei!omepd!merlyn From: merlyn@intelob (Randal L. Schwartz @ Stonehenge) Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted,comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: News Readers Summary: use Gnews! Keywords: vn vnews rn readnews Message-ID: <3725@omepd> Date: 5 Aug 88 16:03:53 GMT References: <3100@cs.utexas.edu> <4619@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> Sender: news@omepd Reply-To: merlyn@intelob.intel.com (Randal L. Schwartz @ Stonehenge) Followup-To: comp.sources.wanted Organization: Stonehenge; netaccess via BiiN, Hillsboro, Oregon, USA Lines: 26 In-reply-to: tlh@cs.purdue.EDU (Tom "Hey Man" Hausmann) In article <4619@medusa.cs.purdue.edu>, tlh@cs (Tom "Hey Man" Hausmann) writes: | In article <3100@cs.utexas.edu>, ubiquity@cs.utexas.edu (Richard Hoffman) writes: | > I am looking for a news reader that will combine the interface of | > "vnews" with the kill file maintenance of "rn", and perhaps provide | | See summary | | -Tom See summary :-). To elaborate, Gnews uses the screen interface of GNU Emacs to provide both spooled access to local news directories (ala rn) and NNTP access to remote news directories (ala rrn). Elaborate "kill-file" setups are provided, and in the GNU Emacs philosophy, it is also well documented with hooks to modify *anything* you don't like. Searching and sorting by subject title are built-in. Full source is available via FTP from ucbvax.berkeley.edu (mail weemba@garnet.berkeley.edu for help). I'm converted. I haven't invoked rn in almost a month. (weemba: do I get my $5 now? :-) -- Randal L. Schwartz, Stonehenge Consulting Services (503)777-0095 on contract to BiiN Technical Publications (for now :-), Hillsboro, Oregon or ...!tektronix!ogcvax!omepd!intelob!merlyn Standard disclaimer: I *am* my employer!