Re: Modern Replacement for Xnews?

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From: Rockinghorse Winner
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2012 04:30

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* It may have been the liquor talking, but 
XS11E <xs11eNO@SPAMyahoo.com> wrote:

> Phil Philanderer <phil-philanderer@yer.seester.and.yer.mama.now>
> wrote: 
>
>> Is there a modern replacement for the now obsoleting Xnews?
>
> Xnews is possibly the most modern of all newsreaders.
>
>> It uses too much memories to load up some groups and takes forever
>> to get the remaining message counts while whiting-out and lagging
>> my downloads as well as slowing down the response times on some of
>> my online games while I'm watching several news feeds and the
>> Olympics... 
>
> Sorry you haven't figured out how to use it yet...

nn is great, and so like Xnews, that you won't even realize you're using
another usenet client. Really.

Terry
-- 
"Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls  |/
drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own       |/    Gentoo Linux
despair, against our will, comes wisdom through     |/   
the awful grace of God." -Aeschylus                 |/

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From: Rockinghorse Winner <badass.superman@gmx.com>
Subject: Re: Modern Replacement for Xnews?
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