Re: new to usenet, some slrn questions



On 2009-04-25, Justin C <justin.0904@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <slrngv5ffn.90n.indi@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Indi wrote:

Mutt users say that all MUAs suck, but mutt sucks the
least. I think that also applies to newsreaders and slrn.

Twelve years, and I've never found anything I prefer to slrn. Twelve
years, and I keep going back to mutt! I seem to resemble your remark.


Sometimes people I know see my screen and say things like, "why are you
using that antique sofware to read email and news, when you have that
nice, new Mac?" And I tell them, "Because it doesn't wreck my nerves,
like all the alternatives".
:)

--
indi
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