From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pertsserver.cs.uiuc.edu ([128.174.247.69]) by hawkwind.utcs.utoronto.ca with SMTP id <24626>; Mon, 3 Mar 1997 11:41:31 -0500 Received: (from mkgardne@localhost) by pertsserver.cs.uiuc.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA06206; Mon, 3 Mar 1997 10:41:06 -0600 (CST) Date: Mon, 3 Mar 1997 11:41:06 -0500 Message-Id: <199703031641.KAA06206@pertsserver.cs.uiuc.edu> From: "Mark K. Gardner" To: rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu Subject: Newsreader Recommendation Reply-to: mkgardne@cs.uiuc.edu This question is off topic. However, I would specifically like the opinions of RC users as I believe it takes a special kind of person to appreciate the delicate balance between usability and creaping featuritis. I am on the prowl for a new threaded news reader. I am looking for one that has the simple-but-usable elegance of RC. I have been using TIN which comes close, but the current beta has an annoying bug and I am tired of waiting for it to be fixed. (The previous version also has its annoying problems.) I have investigated Gnus and find it to be *the* prototype for creaping featuritis. Worst of all, it is very slow on my machine. What news readers do you use and why do you like them? What are their disadvantages? Last of all, where can one obtain the sources for them? Thanks in advance for your opinions (including dissenting ones). -- Mark K. Gardner (mkgardne@cs.uiuc.edu) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Real-Time Systems Laboratory --