From: Karl E. Peterson on
Schmidt wrote:
> "Karl E. Peterson" <karl(a)exmvps.org> schrieb...
>> Schmidt wrote:
>>> "Tom Shelton" <tom_shelton(a)comcastXXXXXXX.net> schrieb...
>>>
>>>>> Evangelist! ;-P
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> How can you argue with this:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.tom-shelton.net/files/slrn.png
>>>
>>> Hehe, real men use telnet for that...
>>> www.datenhaus.de/Downloads/telnet-nntp.png
>>> <g>
>>
>> Show-off! <bg>
>
> :-)
>
> You may have a point here, but in this case I actually
> had to *google* the correct NNTP-commands
> beforehand, to come up with that screen... SCNR
> <g>

Is it bragging to say, "I can't even begin to recall how often I've
googled raw NNTP commands!"? <bg>

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From: Karl E. Peterson on
Tom Shelton wrote:
>>>>> slrn + console mode vim + powershell.... Now that's a newsreader.
>>>>
>>>> Evangelist! ;-P
>>>
>>> How can you argue with this:
>>>
>>> http://www.tom-shelton.net/files/slrn.png
>>>
>>> :)
>>
>> LOL! OMG, I haven't seen something like that in ages! Nothing wrong
>> with a little nostalgia every now and then. :-)
>
> You laugh - but, it's all I use for my nntp access :) Have for years - on
> both linux and windows.

If I didn't know better, I'd think that was written in QuickBasic.
(Okay, okay, I'll quit... <g>)

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