What is slrn? (was Re: Hello)

From: Allen Scott-Thoennes (sthoenna@efn.org)
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 22:12:23 -0700

In article <7R1H0oHpvqkG092yn@skypoint.com>,
rsteiner@skypoint.com (Richard Steiner) wrote:
>Here in list.yarn, bpaddock@csonline.net (Bob Paddock) spake unto us,
>saying:
>
>>>It would appear, based on observations in other
>>>areas, that Chan has concentrated of late on porting SLRN to Win95 console
>>>mode.
>>
>>Whats SLRN?

SLang Read News. Slang is some sort of os-independant function library
or programming language or combination of the two. slrn is a newsreader
built using slang.

>
>IMhO, slrn is the second nicest newsreader in the world. :-) I really
>like it, and use it in Linux because I can't figure out how to get Yarn
>to work yet (or get SOUP packets there).

Umm, this might sound a little old-fashioned, but have you tried uqwk?
Or is there a problem with it?