In article: <DDd648D5wOgN090yn@erols.com>,
mcbrides@erols.com (Jerry McBride) wrote:
> >> >I'm looking for a tool that will have approximately the same level of
> >> >functionality as YARN. Someone else on the list pointed to Multimail on
> >> >clark.net that looks to have the potential.
> >> >
> >>
> >> You mean for use on Linux??? Have a look at slrn and slrnpull. SLRN is the
> >> textmode newsreader and SLRNPULL is the "mailer" portion. All in all, a very
> >> useful tool and everybit as good (IMHO) as vsoup/yarn.
> >
> >Eh? Last time I looked, slrn was an on-line nr and slrnpull was the
> >portition that could make it work off-line, however, slrnpull isn't the
> >best way of doing it, the best way is to use leafnode or somesuch...
> >
>
> Uhhh... that's what I said. I use SLRN to read and compose messages and
> SLRNPULL to post/mail them. Actually, they work well together and usually come
> in the same archive.
Slrnpull acts as a storage medium for slrn -- I have never used it, as I
prefer leafnode, but does it act as a news server, or does it just get
all articles for slrn to read?
>
> >Also, he wanted a soup package because he had a large archive, slrn
> >doesn't cope with soup.
>
> I didn't see his "soup" requirement... If he wants the real article... it's
> more than possible to run soup/vsoup under the dos emulator. Hmmm... Yarn would
> ru well for that matter...
He wanted a linux equivalent.
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