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Re: What newsreaders are people using

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From: Matthew Donald Jenkins
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 00:00
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Grahame M. Kelly (gmkelly@zip.com.au) wrote:
: Eric Hornsby wrote:
: > I'd like to get a better news package (one I can use with X Windows).
: 
: Hi Eric,
: 
: I am using Netscape 2.01 which is available from ftp.zip.com.au in
: the pub/linux directory.  Works great and it has News / Email / WWW
: as well.  Try it out, its easy to install just read the README file. 
: Cheers Grahame

Hiyall,
	Well, I'd recommend using elm (which if you have pine you might
already have) which is *the* standard unix text-based mail program.

For news, you can't go past tin IMHO
 Matt - mdj@arcadia.cs.rmit.edu.au
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From: mdj@yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au (Matthew Donald Jenkins )
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Date: 1996/04/18
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