Mail Archives: djgpp/2000/01/31/21:52:09
pcpine is available for mswindows and pine is certainly available for Linux.
I'll have to work with pcpine a little since it's always reading the menu
bar at the top of its screen with every message read. Other than that it
works well enough for mail and news.
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Jude DaShiell
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Lexington Park, MD 20653
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"Peter J. Farley III" <pjfarley AT banet DOT net> wrote in message
news:385b0d5e DOT 18657744 AT news3 DOT banet DOT net...
> "Damian Yerrick" <NOSP AT Musenet@pineight.8m.com> wrote:
> <Snipped>
> >About everyone on alt.aol-sucks hates it too. What are good
> >free newsreaders for MS Windows and for X on Linux?
>
> For MS Windows, I use FreeAgent. It has the advantage over MS Outlook
> that you can *not* get any of these VBA-based (VBA = Visual Basic for
> Applications, integrated into many MS products as a macro language)
> virus emails that are popping up. I think (don't know for sure) that
> Netscape Messenger also has that advantage.
>
> No clue for X on Linux, sorry. In command-line (not X) mode, I have
> used tin. When/if Netscape Messenger is ported, that might also be an
> option, though it isn't there yet.
>
> HTH.
>
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> Peter J. Farley III (pjfarley AT nospam DOT dorsai DOT org OR
> pjfarley AT nospam DOT banet DOT net)
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