how to read in the newsreader
Chris Green
cl at isbd.net
Mon Oct 16 11:44:12 EDT 2017
Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 16 October 2017 at 15:41, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 2017-10-16, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
> >> On 10/15/2017 10:50 PM, Andrew Z wrote:
> >>> Gents,
> >>> how do i get this group in a newsreader?
> >>
> >> Point your newsreader to news.gmane.org,
> >
> > That, IMO, is the only sane way to read mailing lists. If a mailing
> > list isn't carried on gmane, I don't bother with it.
>
> Unless you work regularly on multiple PCs, as there's no newsreader I
> know of that maintains your settings (what articles you have read, in
> particular) across multiple installations. And gmane's UI sucks.
>
> For that situation, reading mailing lists as mails in gmail is the
> best option I've been able to find (not ideal, but adequate).
I read newsgroups using tin, a text-mode/command line newsreader. I
always run tin on my home desktop machine, even if I'm away from home
by using ssh. So I maintain my settings that way. By the way tin
*is* mouse away even though it's a text mode program.
For reading mailing lists (and all my mail for that matter) I use mutt
which is also a text mode program. It makes reading mailing lists
easy because it provides threading etc. I use like I use tin, alway
on my desktop machine using ssh where necessary.
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Chris Green
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