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This isn't about Perl, but it is about this newsgroup. I'm becoming
irritated by the spam that I see (I use Google Groups) and was
wondering if someone could suggest a great free newsreader, as well as
where and how to acquire it.

Quoth nolo contendere <>:
> This isn't about Perl, but it is about this newsgroup. I'm becoming
> irritated by the spam that I see (I use Google Groups) and was
> wondering if someone could suggest a great free newsreader, as well as
> where and how to acquire it.

rn, of course... [1]

Personally I use trn, and I got it from FreeBSD ports; since you appear
to be on Win32 that's probably not much use to you. As you're a Firefox
user you could try Thunderbird.

Ben

[1] In case anyone doesn't know: rn is a newsreader that Larry wrote
before he wrote perl...

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I look into it and it's black.
Why can't I feel? My skin should crack and peel---
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On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 10:40:28 -0700 (PDT) nolo contendere <> wrote:

nc> This isn't about Perl, but it is about this newsgroup. I'm becoming
nc> irritated by the spam that I see (I use Google Groups) and was
nc> wondering if someone could suggest a great free newsreader, as well as
nc> where and how to acquire it.

Emacs comes with Gnus, which is quite good if you can live with ELisp.
It will do mail, news, RSS, etc. in a single interface. It will filter
spam in newsgroups if you need that.

Ted

On Jul 3, 1:59*pm, Ben Morrow <b...@morrow.me.uk> wrote:
> Quoth nolo contendere <simon.c...@fmr.com>:
>
> > This isn't about Perl, but it is about this newsgroup. I'm becoming
> > irritated by the spam that I see (I use Google Groups) and was
> > wondering if someone could suggest a great free newsreader, as well as
> > where and how to acquire it.
>
> rn, of course... [1]
>
> Personally I use trn, and I got it from FreeBSD ports; since you appear
> to be on Win32 that's probably not much use to you. As you're a Firefox
> user you could try Thunderbird.
>

I always thought Thunderbird was just an email client. I think Google
Groups has tainted the way I think about newsgroups. I think of them
as collections of threaded forum posts. Thanks for your suggestions,
I'll check out Thunderbird.

On Jul 3, 2:22*pm, Ted Zlatanov <t...@lifelogs.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 10:40:28 -0700 (PDT) nolo contendere <simon.c...@fmr.com> wrote:
>
> nc> This isn't about Perl, but it is about this newsgroup. I'm becoming
> nc> irritated by the spam that I see (I use Google Groups) and was
> nc> wondering if someone could suggest a great free newsreader, as well as
> nc> where and how to acquire it.
>
> Emacs comes with Gnus, which is quite good if you can live with ELisp.
> It will do mail, news, RSS, etc. in a single interface. *It will filter
> spam in newsgroups if you need that.
>

Yeah, I'm looking for the ability to filter. You're talking about
emacs for the windows platform?

On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 11:45:45 -0700 (PDT) nolo contendere <> wrote:

nc> On Jul 3, 2:22*pm, Ted Zlatanov <t...@lifelogs.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 10:40:28 -0700 (PDT) nolo contendere <simon.c...@fmr.com> wrote:
>>
nc> This isn't about Perl, but it is about this newsgroup. I'm becoming
nc> irritated by the spam that I see (I use Google Groups) and was
nc> wondering if someone could suggest a great free newsreader, as well as
nc> where and how to acquire it.
>>
>> Emacs comes with Gnus, which is quite good if you can live with ELisp.
>> It will do mail, news, RSS, etc. in a single interface. *It will filter
>> spam in newsgroups if you need that.

nc> Yeah, I'm looking for the ability to filter. You're talking about
nc> emacs for the windows platform?

Both Emacs and Gnus run on Windows, yes, but I don't run there
personally. You'll need a recent release of Emacs and Gnus.

Filtering spam on Windows may require some custom setup, but at least
spam-stat.el works on all platforms (it's not as good as CRM114 and
such, though). For more info, see the Gnus manual or try the Gnus
mailing list <>.

Again, this requires you to be at least interested in ELisp, since even
basic customization of Gnus requires you to use it. I'm not sure how
appropriate that requirement is for comp.lang.perl.misc

Ted

On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 10:40:28 -0700 (PDT), nolo contendere <> wrote:

>This isn't about Perl, but it is about this newsgroup. I'm becoming
>irritated by the spam that I see (I use Google Groups) and was
>wondering if someone could suggest a great free newsreader, as well as
>where and how to acquire it.

Free Agent is good, if you can find it. Forte Agent 2.0 is great.

On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 10:40:28 -0700 (PDT), nolo contendere <> wrote:

>This isn't about Perl, but it is about this newsgroup. I'm becoming
>irritated by the spam that I see (I use Google Groups) and was
>wondering if someone could suggest a great free newsreader, as well as
>where and how to acquire it.

Free Agent if you can still find it. I use Agent from Forte.

On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 10:40:28 -0700 (PDT), nolo contendere <> wrote:

>This isn't about Perl, but it is about this newsgroup. I'm becoming
>irritated by the spam that I see (I use Google Groups) and was
>wondering if someone could suggest a great free newsreader, as well as
>where and how to acquire it.

You could use Free Agent. I'm sure its still around.

On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 10:40:28 -0700 (PDT), nolo contendere <> wrote:

>This isn't about Perl, but it is about this newsgroup. I'm becoming
>irritated by the spam that I see (I use Google Groups) and was
>wondering if someone could suggest a great free newsreader, as well as
>where and how to acquire it.

Free Agent is good, if you can find it.