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Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Newsreader that does proper threading

  • Subject: Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Newsreader that does proper threading
  • From: Vic Gedris <vic [ at ] gedris [ dot ] org>
  • Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 14:40:21 -0400
On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 11:36:21PM -0400, yaki wrote:
> I've used slrn to read usenet news for years. It's great, but I've decided 
> to try to find a decent gui newsreader. So far, I've tried to use Evolution 
> and Pan. I don't like the way either of them handles threads. 
> 
> Evolution expands all threads by default, which I don't like. If I collapse 
> all threads and then delete all messages (ctrl-a to select all followed by 
> delete), only the top-level message in each thread is deleted! You have to 
> expand all threads, select all, and then delete--very annoying.
> 
> Pan looks good but its threading seems to be broken. Example: Say there are 
> ten messages in a thread. Pan may actually put them all in the same thread 
> (the desired behaviour, of course) or it may put them in two threads or 
> three or.... Weird.
> 
> What do y'all use?

How about Mozilla or Mozilla Thunderbird?

-Vic

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