[svlug] Usenet Reader

[Joel Seidman]

--- David Fox <dfox94085 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 1:46 PM, Deepan <codeshepherd at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >  Can someone suggest me application to browse and
> >  send messages to Usenet? Also it would be great if
> 
> I like pan (http://pan.rebelbase.com). It's GTK, reasonably fast,
> although there are faster programs, and has good binary / attachment
> support. It should be in your distro's repositories.
> 
> I use the development release, although there hasn't been any
> development since last August (0.132).
> 
> Others include slrn (very very fast, console based), tin, trn, and so forth.
> 
> 
> >  you can recommond some free quality usenet
> >  servers. It will be great if I can install them
> 
> Your ISP might provide a Usenet service. Many do, but the quality
> varies. I recommend giganews (www.giganews.com) - it is not free, but
> is well worth the price if you do a lot of heavy downloading (which I
> do, albeit in spurts). It has probably the best article retention
> available anywhere.
> 
Another vote for pan (I'm only on 0.129).

By usenet server, did you mean an application you can run on your computer, or
a server on the Internet? If the latter, I've satisfactorily used
"freenews.netfront.net", although not too recently. I think if you google
something like "free usenet" you will come up with some.

-- Joel


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