Looking for a News Client

Post #2,375 by dlevitt 7/19/01 5:35:54 PM Reply	Looking for a News Client A couple of newsgroups I read are infested by trolls posting from Altopia [news.alt.com!usenet] Anyone know of newsreader software that can filter based on particular nodes in the Path: header? For Mac, Win, OS/2, Linux, Java or a XEmacs package? Thanks in advance Dave
Post #2,411 by Another Scott 7/20/01 12:02:32 AM Reply	Several options, I think. (With an OS/2 slant.) [link\|http://users.pandora.be/luc.vanbogaert/reviews/pronews.htm\|ProNews/2] is an OS/2 product whose source "escaped" onto the Net. Trevor Helmsley (sp?) and others fixed some bugs with it. I only looked at it briefly, but it was very powerful. It might do what you need. I'd think that a text-based reader like Yarn, possibly coupled with Soup or the like would do what you need. I think you can build kill/score files based on just about anything in the message and message-header. Rummage around the [link\|http://www.vex.net/yarn/\|Yarn] [link\|http://www.vex.net/yarn/archive/\|archive] and see what's appropriate. I used the OS/2 version with souper for many years. It's wonderful software. It's a shame that the author let it die without releasing the source... [link\|http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~guckes/slrn/\|slrn] also has a lot of fans. Ports are available for lots of OSes. I only briefly looked at it. It's probably the safer choice as it's still under development. HTH. Cheers, Scott.
Post #2,415 by pwhysall 7/20/01 2:57:16 AM 7/20/01 2:59:48 AM Reply	For top-drawer killfiling... you want either GNUS (for XEmacs) or slrn. The killfiling and scoring abilities of these two is, IMHO, without peer. If you want a GUI, and somewhat less spectacular but nonetheless effective killfiling, then you probably want Pan for Linux. -- Peter Shill For Hire Edited by pwhysall July 20, 2001, 02:59:48 AM EDT Expand All History
Post #2,759 by dlevitt 7/24/01 3:42:20 PM Reply	Re: For top-drawer killfiling... Looks like I'll be giving GNUS a try - have to figure out why my XEmacs install is having trouble downloading packages first though.
Post #2,412 by addison 7/20/01 12:10:30 AM Reply	Pan for Linux.
Post #2,591 by bepatient 7/22/01 7:05:54 PM Reply	What he said. Um...er...well... I have no choice! [link\|mailto:bepatient@aol.com\|BePatient]
Post #4,564 by tablizer 8/10/01 8:30:11 PM Reply	Rolling your own? I am thinking about making my own newsreader via FoxPro and some kind of command-line utility set. That way I can make any filter and query criteria I want in a simple high-level RAD manner. Does anybody know of any pipe-based utilities that work on M$ machines? If not, I might try fiddling with Python newsreader API's. ________________ oop.ismad.com

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