From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Nov 18 16:39:29 1995 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id QAA28925 for ports-outgoing; Sat, 18 Nov 1995 16:39:29 -0800 Received: from ibp.ibp.fr (ibp.ibp.fr [132.227.60.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA28919 ; Sat, 18 Nov 1995 16:39:24 -0800 Received: from blaise.ibp.fr (blaise.ibp.fr [132.227.60.1]) by ibp.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) with ESMTP id BAA15149 ; Sun, 19 Nov 1995 01:39:14 +0100 Received: from (uucp@localhost) by blaise.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) with UUCP id BAA13357 ; Sun, 19 Nov 1995 01:39:14 +0100 Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.7.1/keltia-uucp-2.6) id BAA01852; Sun, 19 Nov 1995 01:24:36 +0100 (MET) From: Ollivier Robert Message-Id: <199511190024.BAA01852@keltia.freenix.fr> Subject: Re: knews-0.9.3 ported - really, an amazing X11 Newsreader with graphical threads To: andreas@knobel.gun.de (Andreas Klemm) Date: Sun, 19 Nov 1995 01:24:35 +0100 (MET) Cc: jkh@freebsd.org, j@uriah.heep.sax.de, ports@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199511181646.RAA15921@knobel.gun.de> from "Andreas Klemm" at Nov 18, 95 05:46:21 pm X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT ctm#1345 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8b] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk It seems that Andreas Klemm said: > Well this is _the_ coolest X11 NNTP newsreader I ever saw, here > some infos from the WEB page: Just wait a few months and a friend of mine will release Newsview which the equivalent of trn but under X11. It has real threading (like knews which borrowed trn's algorithms), visual thread display (much prettier than knews' own which way too large IMO) and something never really seen elsewhere: true multi-server support. Not being able to switch servers and have different newsrc for each server but real integration of the articles from all servers. You can subscribe from one or more servers for each group. It will also have both regular scoring (à la strn) but also auto-scoring... It also has multiples UI (Athena, Athena3D, 3DLook, Xview, NextStep and MacOS interfaces) all in an Xlib only program. Newsview is actually in alpha (generally 1 or 2 weeks between alphas) and I expect it to go beta in2 or 3 months. I've tried knews; it is much better than Xrn (i.e. it has threads unlike Xrn) but I think the graphical part is poor. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 2.2-CURRENT #1: Sun Nov 12 16:47:05 MET 1995