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I've been useing Turnpike for a week or so now, but as this is the only
reason i am using MS-Windows, and would prefere not to have to keep
rebooting etc. Can anyone recommend a good off-line X-based news reader
for Linux.
I have my ppp up and running etc,

Thanks in advance.
--
Neil Dudman

[Posted and mailed]

Neil,

I can thoroughly recommend knews as a linux news reader. It's online
however. It is fully threaded with a really nice X interface - the closest
I could find to something like Free Agent (I don't know Turnpike).

Find info at ;

http://www.student.nada.kth.se/~su95-kjo/knews.html

Hope this helps.

Alastair

Quote:> I've been useing Turnpike for a week or so now, but as this is the only
> reason i am using MS-Windows, and would prefere not to have to keep
> rebooting etc. Can anyone recommend a good off-line X-based news reader
> for Linux.
> I have my ppp up and running etc,

> Thanks in advance.

namdud> I've been useing Turnpike for a week or so now, but as this is
namdud> the only reason i am using MS-Windows, and would prefere not to
namdud> have to keep rebooting etc. Can anyone recommend a good off-line
namdud> X-based news reader for Linux.

Well, there are a few offline newsreaders for Linux, using various forms
of various offline packet formats, but they are fairly pointless.

There are three alternatives to offline readers:

1) an NNTP cache/proxy server running on your machine, for example
   'nntpcache';

2) an NNTP fetch program, such as 'suck' or 'slurp', and a locally
   running news server;

3) using something like SLiRP to automatically bring up or down the line
   as you move around.

All these methods are variously reasonable. I personally use SLiRP with
a nice newsreader like GNUS 5. Thus I have the line up only when reading
in the TOC for a newsgroup, or when actually reading in the few
articles I want to read.

I prefer this to caching because caching works well only with multiple
users, and I am the only user on my machine; and to prefetching because
prefeching will download all new articles in a newsgroup, and virtually
all newsgroups I read are high volume and I only read a few articles off
each.