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From: Arjan Drieman
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 00:00

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On Fri, 07 Jul 2000 12:33:07 +0200, Martin
     <Martin.Schen@MailAndNews.com> wrote:

>> The program *does* do the dull work.  It took me like 2 minutes to
>> learn it like an *ordinary* user and just read and post, and it took me
>
>You made me curious. I downloaded slrn and tried it but I did not succeed. Is
>there some tutorial for dummies? I tried to manage to install it but after I
>clicked on C:\program files\slrn.exe

Oh, you're using *that* OS.  No wonder.  Slrn is easy under linux :P
Of course you stopped trying something after clicking on that .exe and
reading 1 readme...

If you had looked any further, you would have found some nice extensive
documentation:
http://thingy.apana.org.au/~fun/slrn/

Once the newsreader is up and running, this one's also nice
http://alcor.concordia.ca/topics/netnews/slrn/intro/


>Under Unix, this <..>

... didn't make you think you needed a different file to read?


Cheers,
Arjan

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