Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 05:27:02 +0000 (GMT) From: "P. U. (Uli) Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de> To: Wayne Lubin <wayneclubin@yahoo.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Communicator with Gnome part II Message-ID: <20011028051329.B5317-100000@big> In-Reply-To: <20011028005853.60668.qmail@web14706.mail.yahoo.com>
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Hi Wayne! I think communicator and mozilla are simply to slow to read big newsgroups or big mailing lists (and throw most things away). You should have a look at www.freebsd.org/ports/news.html or www.freebsd.org/ports/mail.html for a fast and small news/mail reader. When you like working in gnome enviroment, there is pan when you don't care about enviroments at all you can use pine (which is what I do) - it runs on text-console. Uli. On Sat, 27 Oct 2001, Wayne Lubin wrote: > Last time in part I of this series I was using > communiator 4.7 with gnome and was having problems > with communicator not allowing me to delete the local > list of old headers, thereby creating a growing list > of the local headers which became a problem because it > was taking comunicator a long time just list the old > headers before I could even begin downloading the > bodies of messages. So I deinstalled it, and installed > communicator 4.0 which still shows me no way to delete > old headers, but seems to not take as long to list the > old headers before allowing me to begin viewing new > newsgroup messages. So for now I guess things are > good. However, this version of communicator does not > allow me to join any newsgroups. I am subscribed to > the ones from before, but I can not join any new ones. > Yes, I go through the motions to join a group by > clicking on subscribe which lists all the groups in > that little window, but when I try to join by > highlighing the group that I want to join, and > clicking on join, and click ok and go back to the list > it simply is not listed. I have been looking at this > problem for several hours and have tried several > times, so I am quit sure that the join a group > function does not work. Has anyone run into this > problem, and knows how to fix it. Can I go to a file > that lists the subscribed to groups and just put the > groups that I want to join in the file? Also, one > more problem that seems to happen a lot is when I > click on some link, it causes netscape to die. Just > goes away. Almost 1/4 of the time this happens. Anyone > else have this problem. Is it a known thing in the > freebsd world that the netscape ports suck, and in > fact I should be using some other browser(does another > browser even exist for freebsd)? Thanks for your help. > > Wayne > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. > http://personals.yahoo.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > ************************************ * P. U. Kruppa - Wuppertal * * Germany * * www.pukruppa.de www.2000d.de * ************************************ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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