On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 10:07:22PM -0400, François Pinard wrote:

John Grant writes:

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I'm looking for a text-based newsreader that supports threading, scoring based on arbitrary headers and regexs, and virtual newsgroups like strn does. In addition, I'd like support for multiple servers. Being on the SuSE 6.3 CDs would be a bonus, but is not required. Anyone know of such a beast? Yeah, I know, I don't want much. :)

Gnus 5.8.3 has all these things, and surely many more. I run it here over Emacs 20.6. I do not know `strn', so I'm not sure that virtual newsgroups are exactly the same concept, presumably yes. It should not be too difficult

Strn will take an arbitrary bunch of newsgroups and display them as one newsgroup. For example, the definition of my virtual "nix" group is: begin virtual score min -5 filter unread +comp.unix.admin +comp.unix.aix +comp.unix.amiga +comp.unix.aux +comp.unix.bsd.* +comp.unix.internals +comp.unix.machten +comp.unix.misc +comp.unix.programmer +comp.unix.questions +comp.unix.sco.announce +comp.unix.solaris +comp.unix.user-friendly +comp.unix.wizards [etcetc] +linux.dev.kernel +comp.os.linux.announce +comp.os.linux.answers +comp.os.linux.hardware +comp.os.linux.misc +comp.os.linux.setup display author display nogroup end virtual Strn displays these all as if they were one group called "Nix". Does gnus do something similar?

getting started as a newsreader, but you have to read a bit in the manual. It requires more work and tuning (there are so many things you can adjust) if you want to use it simultaneously as a news readers and a mail user agent.

Believe me, I'm used to work and tuning! It can't possibly be any MORE difficult to set up than strn. A good manual would be a nice feature over strn too. Anyway, thanks for the gnus pointer. I'll check it out. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/