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Re: What newsreaders are there out there?

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From: David Goodenough
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 1989 00:18
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In article <698@biar.UUCP> trebor@biar.UUCP (Robert J Woodhead) writes:
>Having puttered around the net for the last couple of months, I have become
>more and more dissatisfied with the newsreading software I am using (rn).

I found that vn is far more useful, and has become my newsreader of choice.
The reason comes from a combination of two things: I dial in from home at
1200 to read news sometimes, and I usually only read a small subset of
articles in a group. With vn I am presented with 22 articles at a time,
showing subject and poster - I can deal with a backlog of close to 100
articles in almost no time at all, by just reading the stuff I want. Granted
this is less of an advantage at 9600 BPS, but since I'm too cheap to shell
out for a 2400 BPS modem I'm forced to run at 1200 when calling from home.

Just my $0.02 worth - BTW I'm going to be real interested in how this
nn thing behaves: I have it all saved away, but haven't bothered to
unpack and make it yet.
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From: dg@lakart.UUCP (David Goodenough)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: What newsreaders are there out there?
Message-ID: <598@lakart.UUCP>
Date: 3 Jul 89 00:18:58 GMT
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