NOOB NeedS Expert Advise on What Newsgroup Program to use!

moore757 · 03-02-2005, 07:17 PM

Hello seasoned veterans, in looking at the User Choice Awards this year i didn't see a listing for the most popular Newsgroup program for reading / downloading images, etc from the wonderful and vast world of newsgroups. While most people are aware of certain programs such as Firefox for browsing, Gaim for IM etc. I simply cannot seem to find a popular answer. Any feedback is grealty appreciated.

Cheers

cavalier · 03-02-2005, 07:21 PM

I'm surprised that nobody responded to this.

The vast majority of hardcore geeks still probably use trn. It's pretty darned feature-rich.

That said, Mozilla is probably the best GUI-based newsreader that most folk already have on their system.

synaptical · 03-02-2005, 07:23 PM

i think pan is the best. it says it's for gnome, but i think it runs without it as long as you have gtk2.

moore757 · 03-02-2005, 07:25 PM

Thanks so much for your quick response. trn eh? sounds interesting. I shall give it a look right now!

synaptical · 03-02-2005, 07:46 PM

trn is command line. i don't think that's going to be very useful to you if your main purpose is to read and d/l images.

as i said, you want pan, or use the reader in mozilla, thunderbird, etc.

jiml8 · 03-03-2005, 12:22 AM

Pan blows the Mozilla newsreader out of the water. Also works fine with KDE, so long as all needed libraries are installed.