On 2023-10-27, Retro Guy <
retro.guy@rocksolidbbs.com> wrote:
Sn!pe wrote:
Ian gay <gay@sfu.ca> wrote:
db wrote:
I used to use pan and was happy with it, but it started acting
up about a year or so ago, so I can no longer use it. I switched
to Thunderbird (I work under Ubuntu Linux) and it's OK, but not
as nice, I feel.
Does anyone know what is wrong with pan?
What other news readers are recommended?
Am I the only one in the world who uses knode? Years ago I decided I
like it better than pan, but I don't remember the reasons.
I really liked Knode. As KDE does, they have removed it (unsupported) and it's gone from Debian repos. Seems many think, "just use Thunderbird for news", but it's not a good newsreader in my opinion.
I used Knode 20 years ago and liked it. I liked the original Pan of
that time too, but the modern rewrite of Pan was too full of problems
for me to persevere with it.
Pan was nice, but now it doesn't show buttons on windows for me, and other problems. I've given up on Pan now.
I'm using Sylpheed, which I like, but I find it irritating when it checks groups while you're reading a message, then that message gets marked as read, and disappears from the headers (using Show Unread). Going back to look for it is a pain. Other than that, it's not too bad.
Slrn it's fine. On Debian GNU/Linux and libre and non-libre derivatives such
as Ubuntu, there's slrnface. If you copy /usr/share/slrn/macros/slrnface.sl
to ~/.slrn/slrnface.sl and edit ~/.slrnrc with this line:
interpret "/home/USER/.slrn/slrnface.sl"
where USER it's your real username,
you will see X-Faces inline if you use a desktop or
window manager under X.
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