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   Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.ubuntu   
   Subject: Re: Rainlendar and Ubuntu 6.10   
   From: SINNER    
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   Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 21:55:53 GMT   
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   * Chris Game wrote in alt.os.linux.ubuntu:   
      
   > On 2007-02-14, SINNER wrote:   
   >    
   >> I have both loaded. I cant understand your fascination with pine. It's    
   >> intolerable for news after using slrn IMO.    
   >    
   > I agree it (Pine) is far too slow - incidentally mark Crispin of UW    
   > fame tells me it's because my news-server is broken - but the    
   > interface is better. And (properly patched ) it understands Unicode    
   > and utf-8 so that the characterset issues you get with slrn go away.    
   > And it can read the saved posts and posts from me which otherwise    
   > I'd have to use another app. to read (on top of slrn)!   
      
   This is typical of Linux, I guess some love its modularity while others    
   are taken back a bit. All a matter of getting used to, I mean using mutt    
   isn't as bad as say using MS Word for an editor in Xnews :)   
      
   >    
   > But, David, I am using slrn for the moment as it (although not    
   > perfect) does a better job than anything else I've tried, so thanks    
   > for putting me on to it. And the header layout line you posted looks    
   > fine, I've set it as default here, thanks for that.   
   >    
      
   Ahhh, I hadnt put together your previous mention of UTF issues in slrn    
   and Pine. It all makes perfect sense now. Glad I was a little convincing    
   though ;)   
      
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   David   
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