[ale] "Good" Newsreader for GNOME/Ubuntu?

[Jason Day]

On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 02:41:53PM +0000, Jason Lunz wrote:
> >  * View only threads that have unread messages in them, in addition
> >    to all threads.
> >  * Supports attachments and HTML posts, both reading and writing (I
> >    have to deal with lots of OE users in an online learning=20
> >    environment).
> >  * Supports specifying non-standard ports OR supports NNTPS -- if it
> >    doesn't support NNTPS, I have to use non-standard ports because
> >    I would have to use stunnel to connect to (multiple) servers.
> >  * Has a "next read message" key or shortcut.
> >  * Things like plonking, scoring, etc. do not matter to me.
> 
> Have you looked at Thunderbird? It does all these things.

Second the thunderbird suggestion.  I use it at work for mail, RSS, and
news from multiple NNTP servers.  Threading and attachments work very
well.  The only thing it lacks, IMHO, is decent calendar integration.
For now, anyway.

Jason
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