From: Karl E. Peterson on 5 Feb 2010 15:52 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> -- ..NET: It's About Trust! http://vfred.mvps.org
From: Karl E. Peterson on 5 Feb 2010 15:54
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>) -- ..NET: It's About Trust! http://vfred.mvps.org |