Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Andrew DeFaria Subject: Re: An apology... Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 11:33:28 -0800 Lines: 17 Message-ID: <3E528A88.9000003@Salira.com> References: <00e601c2d768$0eddc220$e5ea86d9@webdev> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021120 Netscape/7.01 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, ru, zh Elfyn McBratney wrote: > Not everyone here uses a sparkly gui app (oex) so not everyone will > have access to a news-reader. It is however, more likely that they > will have access to a mail-client, tho. Never quite understood the "not have access to a newsreader" argument. IIRC many of them are free. For example, I use Netscape for both mail and news reading. It's free and works well. Is Outlook Express free? I don't know - I hate both Outlook and Outlook Express. Then there's Free Agent that I hear about. I assume it's free but I'm not sure. And isn't there GNUS... And hasn't anybody ported things like tin and trn to Cygwin yet! :-) IMHO getting a news reading client is no harder than getting an email reading client. YMMV. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/