From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Nov 19 01:49:50 1995 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id BAA21386 for ports-outgoing; Sun, 19 Nov 1995 01:49:50 -0800 Received: from knobel.gun.de (knobel-ip.gun.de [192.109.159.141]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id BAA21343 ; Sun, 19 Nov 1995 01:49:30 -0800 Received: from knobel.gun.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by knobel.gun.de (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id KAA05931; Sun, 19 Nov 1995 10:02:13 +0100 Date: Sun, 19 Nov 1995 10:02:13 +0100 (MET) From: Andreas Klemm To: Ollivier Robert cc: jkh@freebsd.org, j@uriah.heep.sax.de, ports@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: knews-0.9.3 ported - really, an amazing X11 Newsreader with , graphical threads In-Reply-To: <199511190024.BAA01852@keltia.freenix.fr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 19 Nov 1995, Ollivier Robert wrote: Sounds very good what you are telling about Newsview. I'll give it a try, if it's available. > 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. Nevertheless, it does it's job. And the color stuff for "hot" articles is very clever, too. Just for now it's the best newsreader I ever saw. Might be the case that Newsview is really better, ok, then I'd switch to it. But knews is available now, Newsview not. Andreas /// -- andreas@knobel.gun.de /\/\___ Wiechers & Partner Datentechnik GmbH Andreas Klemm ___/\/\/ - Support Unix - aklemm@wup.de - \/ ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Printing/aps-491.tgz apsfilter - magic print filter 4lpd >>> knobel is powered by FreeBSD <<<