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   From: Hadron    
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   Subject: Re: Slrn   
   Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 13:14:18 +0100   
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   Chris Game  writes:   
      
   > On 2007-02-19, Mateus Denigris  wrote:   
   > ...   
   >> Once you go SLRN, you will wonder why anyone still uses any other    
   >> news client. Knode crashes, pan is a pain in the ass to use and    
   >> the simplest plonking is absolutely ludicrous in it's    
   >> implementation, and there are so many things wrong with many    
   >> others that it's hard to even remember all of them.   
   >   
   > I presume you really mean it's the best of a bad lot. There are many    
   > slrn shortcomings and I'd point  you to some threads about that on    
   > here, but as slrn doesn't cache headers let alone bodies it's a bit    
   > difficult! Let us know when there's a patch to handle utf-8    
   > properly too!   
   >   
   > Just as with email clients, there is no perfect news reader. Maybe    
   > it's one of the laws of Physics!   
      
   There is : gnus ...   
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