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   From: SINNER <99nesorjd@gates_of_hell.invalid>   
   Subject: Re: Slrn   
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   Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 12:59:36 GMT   
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   * Chris Game wrote in alt.os.linux.ubuntu:   
   > On 2007-02-20, SINNER <99nesorjd@gates_of_hell.invalid> wrote:   
   >> * Chris Game wrote in alt.os.linux.ubuntu:   
   >>> On 2007-02-19, Mateus Denigris  wrote:   
      
   >>>> On 2007-02-19, SINNER spake thusly:   
   >>>>> * Chris Game wrote in alt.os.linux.ubuntu:   
   >>>>>> 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!   
      
   >>>>> slrnpull   
      
   >>>> Leafnode, as well.   
      
   >>> slrn does a search on local servers? How's that?   
      
   >> What do you mean hows that? Its called XPAT.   
      
   > I mean "How does that help". Does having slrnpull or leafnode add    
   > anything to the functionality I get from the news server at my ISP?   
      
   I dont know, does your ISP support XPAT and XHDR? Not to mention the   
   difference in speed and overall control.   
      
   > I    
   > can already expand threads to include all previous posts, but short    
   > of resetting my newsrc and downloading the last three hundred    
   > headers for searching,   
      
   Why do you have to reset the newsrc? What is wrong with ESC + 1 adn type   
   in the number of headers you want?   
      
   > I don't see how to do what I was referring to    
   > above, i.e. find a previous thread by subject or content. Local    
   > caching of headers and bodies would enable the header list to be    
   > broadened to include those if necessary, just as we could on    
   > Gravity, Thunderbird and goodness knows what else.   
      
   > Anyhow, the OP on this thread was telling us all how slrn was the    
   > greatest thing since blended Frappuccino, and I was merely pointing    
   > out - with examples - that this was pure bollocks. It maybe good,    
   > but it's not perfect!   
      
   The only valid complaint that you have is UTF-8 support.   
      
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