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[mperry@xxxxxxxxx (Michael Perry)]

Thus spake Chris Keenan (chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx): 
> 
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> I have to agree with you in principle, but I still think mail & news
> are natural bedfellows!
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
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> Chris Keenan
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There are some options for offline reading you should consider.  I believe
that slrnpull converts slrn into an offline reader and there are others.
There also was a reader called News Peruser which offered an offline mode
which I setup running with crontabs to gather news at a specified time in
the background.  I have never set up slrnpull or the other alternatives
but I have read the fine print.  It seems pretty easy to do all
considered.

I have toyed with using agent since I did tech support for my ISP but I
have always like the subtle differences between well written email and
news applications.  I dont feel that Agent does it badly; its just not my
cup.

I have also seen a newsreader called Newsflex I believe which offers an
offline mode.  I tried this once and it did not seem too hard to set up or
compile.  News Peruser required adding libs and other things and it never
was stable on my desktop.

If you go to the Linux Applications and Utilities page (somewhat or quite
dated), it presents a view of how things were.  I sure wish they were
updating that website.  It was always quite useful.  I dont know the url
right off since I do not visit it that much anymore.  My vote now is for
the rufus rpm archives.  Quite cool.

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