____/ ed on Sunday 22 July 2007 13:54 : \____
> On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 12:46:22 +0100
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Thunderbird is not the most sophisticated newsgroup client (the same
>> goes for RSS), but I still use it for mailing lists, which are
>> similar (been manageing them in Horde for years, but it was slow). If
>> you intend to participate in busy newsgroups, consider something like
>> KNode (KDE required) or maybe even Pan. Windows has its own powerful
>> newsreaders (third party, of course), but they are not cross platform
>> and I am not sure they are all actively maintained (making it a risky
>> investment in terms of skills).
>
> If that fails there's always Tk and perl modules.
Yes, there are more rudimentary methods (with a steeper learning curve), but
the paradigm is being killed by the perception that commands are inferior to a
single little cursor moving around the screen (with a trigger). Communication
with machines changes from language to pointing and grunting (like cavemen).
But guess what? After a decade of striving to kill the command line, even
Microsoft decided that it needed a comeback, which will come in 2008 or 2009.
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