Favorite NNTP Client?

keller asks: "We all have our favourite browser, mail client and OS! So what about Usenet Reader? I have always used Netscape's built-in one, and have always been satisfied, but are there better alternatives out there. I'm not looking for any features in particular, just something easy to use and nice to look at."

Comments

Cut The Mullet

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Do something about your long, filthy hair

It looks like a rat's nest<br>
Do something about your mullet<br>
Get out the hair clippers, jerk<br>
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Cut the mullet<br>
Cut the mullet<br>
Cut the mullet<br>
Cut the mullet<br>
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Get the rat's nest off your head<br>
Get that crazy-ass mother off your skull<br>
Take your ass to the barber shop<br>
Tell the barber that you're sick of looking like an asshole<br>
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Cut the mullet<br>
Cut the mullet<br>
Cut the mullet<br>
Cut the mullet<br>
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The mullet is the reason why people hate you<br>
They are sick of looking at your nappy weed-sack<br>
Nobody wants to look at you with that mullet on your head<br>
Why don't you cut that mullet, you numbskull<br>
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Cut the mullet<br>
Cut the mullet<br>
Cut the mullet<br>
Cut the mullet<br>
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Rock over lodon. Rock on chicago. Insure One, it's the insurance superstore.
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Cut The Mullet

[MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM]

Do something about your long, filthy hair
It looks like a rat's nest
Do something about your mullet
Get out the hair clippers, jerk

Cut the mullet
Cut the mullet
Cut the mullet
Cut the mullet

Get the rat's nest off your head
Get that crazy-ass mother off your skull
Take your ass to the barber shop
Tell the barber that you're sick of looking like an asshole

Cut the mullet
Cut the mullet
Cut the mullet
Cut the mullet

The mullet is the reason why people hate you
They are sick of looking at your nappy weed-sack
Nobody wants to look at you with that mullet on your head
Why don't you cut that mullet, you numbskull

Cut the mullet
Cut the mullet
Cut the mullet
Cut the mullet

Rock over lodon. Rock on chicago. Insure One, it's the insurance superstore.

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The Pimp-Ass Newsreader

[egrinake]

PAN (the Pimp Ass Newsreader) is without a doubt the best newsreader I've used on any platform. Pan seems to be Unix/Linux only, and is based on the gtk+ toolkit.

Check it out at http://pan.rebelbase.com.

Release names

[codexus]

I've never used it but I really like the release names: "Cherry Blossoms Fall" "Alethiometer" (cf. His Dark Materials trilogy ;) "Why Don't You Just Make Ten Louder" The author has humor and I'm gonna give this newsreader a try.

SLRN or PAN, I would say.

[Proteus]

I've had great luck using SLRN for both Windows and Linux. It is text only, but it respects your mime types and/or mailcap entries, so viewing graphical items isn't a problem. It also lets you use your favorite editor to compose news posts, which I find to be a definate plus.

Since slrn exists for nearly every major platform, those who switch between many boxen on a regular basis will benefit from having a consistent interface. Also, scoring, downloading multi-part binaries, editing your posts, and administering news groups are all simple and easy to learn.

I've tried dozens of news readers, and I've come to believe in slrn as the top of the pile. However, if you're just using an X environment and no other platform, pan (the Pimp Ass Newsreader) is a great graphical client.

Re:SLRN or PAN, I would say.

[karlbowden]

PAN is da best as, when your filtering attachments, for the purpose of collecting ROMS or PORN

Forte agent

[Jon Peterson]

http://www.forteinc.com/

It was good enough for me to give up nn (and rn, and trn).

Re:Forte agent

[ncc74656]

It was good enough for me to give up nn (and rn, and trn).

Agent does a pretty good job of downloading binaries, but it sucks for actually reading news...the interface is rather cumbersome for moving through the messages. For reading news, I haven't run across a WIMP newsreader that I like...they're barely tolerable at best.

trn rocks...always has (it and its predecessors), always will. Besides, if Windows eats itself, I don't have to worry about losing my killfiles and .newsrc since I run trn (and mutt) on a separate box that runs Linux.

Re:Forte agent

[Marc Boucher]

but it sucks for actually reading news...the interface is rather cumbersome for moving through the messages.

What problem did you encountered while moving between messages?
There are plenty of ways of doing it, and it depends on the sorting method. It's a very powerful program.

Re:Forte agent

[ncc74656]

but it sucks for actually reading news...the interface is rather cumbersome for moving through the messages.

What problem did you encountered while moving between messages?

Keyboard navigation didn't work for the most part. I'll admit that I haven't put a whole lot of time into it, so I might be missing something. Since I mainly use Agent only for snarfing mp3z and such, the interface annoyances are tolerable to that extent.

Re:Forte agent

[Marc Boucher]

Keyboard navigation didn't work for the most part.

Most of the power users (myself included ;) use only the keyboard. We've never seen problem with it. If you're still using it, can you give some example so I can help you?
Also, feel free to ask questions in alt.usenet.offline-reader.forte-agent . :)

You're gonna kick me...

[nsebban]

...as I use Outlook Express ;)

But IMHO this is a powerfull NNTP client, as it offers all I need to get, read, and post to a NNTP server.

And by the way, UNIX users may (I write this even if I'm sure they wont :) try Outlook Express which is bundled with Internet Explorer for UNIX .

Re:You're gonna kick me...

[m_ilya]

But IMHO this is a powerfull NNTP client, as it offers all I need to get, read, and post to a NNTP server.

Well, if it satisfies your need it doesn't means that it a powerfull NNTP client. Actually it only provides basic functionality. IMHO NNTP client can not be called powerfull unless it supports at least kill lists.

Do not think I'm trolling. My point is that powerfull NNTP client should have much more features than OE.

Re:You're gonna kick me...

[Diamon]

Umm.... Tools... Newsgroup Filters. It's in OE 4.72 and probably before that.

Re:You're gonna kick me...

[Strog]

Anyone out there tried downloading the Solaris version and install it on FreeBSD?

I've used some Xerox printer utilities that were written for SunOS on FreeBSD. They were pretty basic and worked fine. I'm wondering about something as complex as IE working

Re:You're gonna kick me...

[m_ilya]

Well, I've not used OE for long time. Sorry for non-intential FUD.

But wait .... Can it do .... hmm ... scoring ?! Quite powerful feature. For example my Gnus is configured to show only first message from each thread. If I find start of thread intreasting I manually increase score for it so all its messages will be shown. If I do nothing with thread I just don't see other messages in it. Also if I post message any replies have additional score so they are shown on top. And finally messages from some authors are moded up or down so either they are on top also (and can be shown even if I've not selected thread) or they never shown (there are always some trolls on high volume newsgroups). Can OE do something similar?

Re:You're gonna kick me...

[Diamon]

Nope. It still just a basic newsreader. But at least it is adequate for a basic newsreader.

Gnus

[m_ilya]

My vote is for Gnus.

• It integrates well with my faivorite OS^H^Htext editor Emacs.
• It has support for scoring which is very valuable feature when you are subscribed on several high volume news groups and maillists.

Re:Gnus

[cdh]

My thoughts exactly. In fact, one of the most powerful features is adaptive scoring. This mechanism keeps track of what articles you actually read and then will score those threads higher the next time you go to the group. Very nice.

Add to the fact that it's totally programmable and it's hard to beat. You really leverage it when you use it to read your email too.

Just for reference, you can get it at: gnus.org. It's also a standard part of (X)Emacs, so you should already have it. Just M-x gnus.

Re:gnus

[Anonymous Coward]

I can't imagine using anything other than gnus ... But you can access not only nntp, but ... even RSS feeds, all with the same client.

Agreed, gnus rules! But how do you get RSS/RDF feeds?

Xnews

[strstr]

Xnews is one of the more popular, and better, Windows news readers.

http://xnews.3dnews.net/

:)

Re:Xnews

[Dethboy]

I'll second that! It's also updated frequently, has good online docs, and it's free!

Re:Xnews

[displaytest]

I'll third it and note that it has good keyboard commands in addition to a solid graphical interface. This provides the convenience of reading and navigating efficiently (it reminds me a little of trn), with less of the "how do I do that again?" puzzlement for little-used commands.

Knode

[42forty-two42]

*lameness filter fodder*

What I'd love to see....

[haplo21112]

IE for LINUX as part of the settlement...not cause I want it or anyrthing, just because it would hurt them so much to do it...
Of course better yet, perhaps the settlement agreement should stipulate 100% porting and compatibility of all MS apps in the Linux environment.

Re:What I'd love to see....

[nsebban]

Honnestly it would be a really good thing for Linux.

If it was that way, I think that Dell, Compaq, HP, and others would sell more Linux-powered PCs (cheaper price), so people would buy more, and probably learn to like Linux as a "really good OS which will help working, playing, learning" --- better than the usual "black screen with command prompt designed by geeks for geeks" :).

WTF are they waiting for ? :)

NNTP stands for TACO-SNOT ME BABY!!!

[The WIPO Troll]

THE OFFICIAL TACO-SNOTTING FAQ
By The WIPO Troll, $Revision: 1.11 $

Why have I been receiving emails from CmdrTaco, in which he seems to be speaking in some kind of code language?

Whenever Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda gets bored (and who wouldn't, running a site like Slashdot all day), he roams through the Slashdot database, penis in hand, looking for people who might enjoy engaging in homosexual orgies with him. How he determines this is anyone's guess; but if you have a homosexual-sounding nickname, or a nick with the letter P in it, you're in trouble.

So this time, he found you. Lucky you.

CmdrTaco's code language is relatively easy to decipher. He prefers to speak in thinly-veiled sexual innuendo to evade the watchful (but relatively stupid) eye of Slashdot's parent corporation, VA Software. CmdrTaco's "Commander" is, of course, his penis -- a small, withered little thing that lives in his pants that only comes out in the presence of other men or at the beck and call of CmdrTaco's own right hand. His "Taco bells" are the shriveled testes that droop beneath his Commander, and his "Taco sauce" is his, well, jizz. It should be more than obvious to you now what he means when he asks you to "ring his Taco bells" or "taste his gourmet Taco sauce."

Lastly, there is a practice he refers to as "Taco-snotting" and the more shocking "circle-snot."

Good Lord. What is "Taco-snotting?"

"Taco-snotting" is the term used by CmdrTaco to refer to the practice of sucking the penis of a homosexual man (or unwilling heterosexual; CmdrTaco is rumored to prefer rape), then blowing the semen out his nose onto his partner's (victim's) face and body. A long, bubbly stream of milky-white semen is left on CmdrTaco's face, dribbling out of his nose and down his cheek: hence the term, "Taco-snotting."

A "circle-snot" is a Taco-snotting circle-jerk, another practice common among the Slashdot crew. CmdrTaco, CowboiKneel, and Homos get together and Taco-snot each other with their gooey, sticky cum -- spooging their jizz-snot all over each other's faces and pasty, white bodies, until they're covered head to toe with each other's man juice. This can go on for hours. For the homosexual penetration that follows this lengthy foreplay, Roblowme is usually there to provide plenty of anal lubricant; he owns a limo service and has ample supplies of motor oil and axle grease ready to go.

To complete this perverted orgy, fellow geeks Michael, Timothy, and Jamie will usually join in, dressed in tight leather mock-S.S. uniforms, jack boots, and leather gloves. The whole group then proceeds to snot each other's spunk and whip each other's pudgy asses with riding crops and chains until their pale, white geek bodies are exhausted and soaked in stinking sweat from the hours of passionate, homosexual revelry.

Ewwwwww. So, can I stop receiving these emails?

Hopefully.

You most likely forgot to uncheck the "Willing to Taco-snot" checkbox in your account preferences. CmdrTaco has probably already got the hots for your wad, and he's probably already been lurking outside your bathroom window for weeks with a camera, some tissues and lube. There's no escaping a geek in heat, so it's probably too late for you, but you can possibly rectify this situation. To remove yourself from CmdrTaco's sights, log into your Slashdot account, go to your user page, click on Messages, and uncheck the box next to "Willing to Taco-snot." Maybe he'll ignore you. Probably not.

I can't stop receiving these emails from CmdrTaco!?

If you indulge him in a Taco-snot or two, he might leave you alone. You might also want to look into mail filtering, restraining orders, or purchasing a heavy, blunt object capable of warding off rampaging homosexual geeks in heat. Trust me, when they charge... oh, the humanity. If he gets you, and you let him Taco-snot you, you will most likely end up tied up in his basement to be used as his sex slave for the rest of your life (or until he accidentally drowns you in spunk in a circle-snot).

Have you ever been Taco-Snotted?

Unfortunately, yes. I first met CmdrTaco at an Open Source Convention. He invited me back to his room for a game of Quake and some "gourmet Tacos," but when I got there, he jumped me and tied me to his bed, stripping me. After taking his "Commander" out of his pants, Mr. Taco made me suck the withered thing six times. He then performed his vile Taco-snotting ritual on me three times over the next two hours, bringing me to orgasm after sweaty, mind-numbing orgasm... then he snotted my own milky-white jizz back onto my face, into my mouth, then again on my exposed belly.

CmdrTaco invited several of his Open Source (or rather, "Open Sauce" -- man sauce) buddies over to continue the twisted snotfest. Linux Torvalds raped my ass with his "monolithic kernel," and Anal Cox used his "network stack" in a multitude of unspeakable ways on and in every orifice in my defenseless body. Michael was there in his leather Nazi uniform, caning my ass with a bamboo pole and ranting about "all those Censorware freaks out to get him."

How did you finally escape, you ask? After about 16 hours of countless homosexual atrocities perpetrated against my restrained body, they all finally went to sleep on top of me, sweat-soaked and exhausted. I was left there, covered in bubbly, translucent jizz-snot, chained to the bed, with half a dozen fat, pasty-white fags lying around and on top of me. Fortunately the spooge coating my flesh worked wonderfully as a lubricant; I was able to squirm my way out of the handcuffs and slip out the back door. I'm just glad I survived the ordeal. These geeks had a lot of built-up spunk in their wads -- I could've easily been drowned!

That's horrible. Does "Taco-snotting" have anything to do with CmdrTaco's "special taco"?

No, that's a different disgusting perversion CmdrTaco indulges himself in. CmdrTaco is usually not satisfied with merely snotting your own jizz back onto your face, he most often enjoys involving his own bodily fluids in his twisted games. WeatherTroll has spent some time trying to educate the Slashdot readership about this vile practice (emphasis added):

You may be wondering what CmdrTaco's "special taco" is. You will be wishing that you hadn't been wondering after you finish reading this post. To make his "special taco", CmdrTaco takes a taco shell and shits on it. He then adds lettuce, jacks off on the taco, and adds a compound to make the person who eats the taco unconscious. Of course, the compound does not make the person unconscious until the taco is fully eaten. Thus CmdrTaco force-feeds the taco to the unsuspecting victim.

After the victim is unconscious, he is held against his will and used for CmdrTaco's nefarious sexual purposes. This includes shoving taco shells up the victim's ass, Taco-snotting, and getting Jon Katz involved.

Completely different, yet no less revolting. It should be clear to you now that CmdrTaco is a very, very sick individual, as are most of the Slashdot editors.

Does Jon Katz get involved in any of this? I thought he was a paedophile, not a homosexual.

Actually, Jon Katz is a homosexual paedophile. He's also a coprophiliac, and, many suspect, a zoophile. Jon Katz is somewhat of a loner and doesn't involve himself in circle-snots. Mr. Katz usually engages in a game called " Katz juicy-douching" with his harem of little-boy slaves: a vile practice which involves administering an enema to himself of the little boy's urine (forced out of them with a pair of pliers), spooging the vile muck from his ass back into the enema bag, then squirting and slathering the goo all over himself, and the little boy's chained-up and naked bodies. If he's in the mood, he will sometimes skip refilling the enema bag and just squirt it from his ass onto his boys. Unwilling boys are further tortured with the pliers until they comply and allow Mr. Katz to juicy-douche them for the rest of their lives.

As I already said, Mr. Katz is also a zoophile. As if the sexual escapades with the helpless little boys aren't enough, Jon usually enjoys his juicy-douches best when his penis is firmly planted in a female goat's anus. He is also rumoured to get off on watching his little boys eat the goat's small, bean-like turds.

...Are you getting hard writing this?

Why, yes. :) Join me in a WIPO-snot?

No, thanks. I'm already CmdrTaco's boi toi.

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READER COMMENTS

1. Re:The Taco-Snotting FAQ Rides Again!! (Updated so (Score:0)
   by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.25 9:14 (#2609574)
   
   try to find a pic of actual "taco-snotting"! fucking funny it would be! so go to gay porn sites day in and day out until you find a man giving another man a blowjob that has jizz coming out of his nose and mouth. by the way, keep up the good work

2. Re:Snotting another first!! (Score:0)
   by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.23 12:18 (#2603370)
   
   WIPO, this is getting waaaay old, either drop it or revise it.... there've been no updates for days now...
   
   CmdrTaco

3. Re:It's Taco SPAM!!! (Score:0)
   by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.22 17:28 (#2600815)
   
   A truly excellent and very humourous troll indeed!
   However...
   
   To complete this perverted orgy, fellow geeks Michael, Timothy, and Jamie often join in, dressed in black Gestapo uniforms, jack boots, and leather gloves.
   
   Black GeStaPo uniforms? The GeStaPo (Geheime Staatspolizei - Secret State Police) wore civilian clothes (although there are reports on them occasionally using Allgemeine SS uniforms in occupied territories).
   
   I seriously doubt that perverted individuals like CmdrTaco et al would have the good taste to ever wear the outstandingly beautiful black Waffen SS uniforms! Please update the FAQ accordingly.
   • Re:It's Taco SPAM!!! (Score:0)
     by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.23 4:06 (#2602610)
     
     Actually, it appears you are both wrong!! Ah ha!! I think our boy WIPO was thinking of the Allgemeine SS uniforms. Waffen SS were grey.

4. Re:Microsoft's Taco-Snotting Connection (Score:-1, Troll)
   by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.21 4:49 (#2594325)
   
   oh yeah, you say you have masturbated only 2 times to this post. well, by the time it takes for me to get through reading it, i usually end up masturbated 5 to 6 times, 10 to 12 if i have the goatse.cx homepage loaded up and am looking at it side by side with the slashdot page. my keyboard, hands, mouse, monitor, the underside of my desk and around the floor under my desk are cum soaked and sticky with the man smell i know and love.

5. Re:Microsoft's Taco-Snotting Connection (Score:0)
   by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.21 4:41 (#2594311)
   
   for version 2 you should make a total re-write of the cod...errr...text and add some details about cmdrtaco and the homo-gang's happenings with their coworkers (osdn?) and all of the gay revelry they enjoy and promote. by the way, did i just see cmdrtaco on television promoting the nax hair removal system? i guess after using vaseline in and around his ass he grew quite a ponytail and it had to be removed somehow...ouch!

6. Re:Microsoft's Taco-Snotting Connection (Score:-1, Troll)
   by TRoLLaXoR on 2001.11.21 3:59 (#2594191)
   
   WIPO, do you notice how few comments you get for anything you write/post/spam nowadays?
   
   -Trollaxor

7. Jon-Katz docking (Score:-1)
   by sales_worldwide on 2001.11.20 11:53 (#2588488)
   
   You forgot to mention Jon Katz's "docking" games, where he places his chopper head to head with another chap, and rolls the other guys foreskin over his own circumcised end ("docking"), providing him with fantasies of actually having his own forskin ...
   "Making linux GPL was the best thing I ever did" - Torvalds. I'd hate to see the worst thing...

8. Re:Snotting a first! (Score:-1)
   by Fucky the troll on 2001.11.20 11:28 (#2588446)
   
   Woah! When did the WIPO troll get freed? And how the fuck did I miss it?
   
   Excellent FP, sir.
   
   This is a sig virus. Please put me in your sig

9. Re:Snotting a first! (Score:-1, Troll)
   by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.20 11:04 (#2588407)
   
   omg that is crapflooding material if i ever saw it!!!!!! and u got a first post!!!! whoot to the wipo troll!!!

10. GW, please.... (Score:0)
    by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.19 9:03 (#2583756)
    
    GW...you know we love every hair on your 27 acre ass... and I, for one, would never do anything untowards your graceful demeanor. And you probably have several friends that would love to help you do the bear dance all over my face if I so much as spelled your name wrong. And you know I'd defend your Constitutional right to defame God in heaven. I'd even help fund your education, should you ever decide to take that route. Hell, I'd buy you a tall tepid bear-whiz beer if you were here with me, right now!
    
    But. ...if you can't find another topic, I'm gonna step over your dead mother's grave and kick your assuredly anesthetitized butt clear across the playground.
    
    Now go stick your shaved head back down inside the woman's toilet, and just to show there's no hard feelings, I'll jump in the tow-truck and drive right over to help you pull it right out...ok?
    
    thanks

11. Re:Help me Taco-Snotters!! (Score:-1)
    by mark knopfler 69 on 2001.11.19 8:25 (#2583695)
    
    I DO NOT BELIEVE YOU SIR. FOR ONE THING, THE E-MAIL FROM CMDRTACO DOES NOT HAVE ENOUGH GRAMMATICAL AND SPELLING MISTAKES. Let's be realistic here, CmdrTaco usually types with one hand, and since he is shaking from jacking off his aim on the keyboard isn't too good. Those e-mails were a little too well written. Sorry boy, you'll have to do better.

12. Re: What the hell is "taco snotting"? (Score:-1)
    by WeatherTroll on 2001.11.19 8:14 (#2583667)
    
    You should update this to say VA Software instead of VA Linux.

13. YOU ARE WINNER (Score:1)
    by smackmonkey on 2001.11.19 7:06 (#2583510)
    
    Crackhead moderators: this is +5, Hilarious material.
    
    --
    CNN declares War on Islam!
    Left-wing America declares War on its Civil Liberties!

14. Re:On Taco-Snotting 1.9 (Score:0)
    by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.19 5:40 (#2583336)
    
    This was funny the first 100 times. Now it is getting boring!

15. Digusting and Shameful (Score:-1)
    by egg troll on 2001.11.18 22:27 (#2582054)
    
    Having masturbated *twice* to this post, I'm still incredibly aroused! Come over for a Taco Snot. I'll be wearing my crotchless Clifford the Big Red Dog outfit!!
    
    For more info check out this /. article

16. IMPROVE THE FAQ (Score:-1, Flamebait)
    by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.18 12:03 (#2580822)
    
    add more links to goatse and to cowboineal's site to make it better. a link to rotten.com would be nice too
    • Re:IMPROVE THE FAQ (Score:0)
      by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.18 12:18 (#2580832)
      
      and a link to michael's site and to jon katz's site if he has one and homo's site. i dont know what else to say. maybe a few links to phallic.org they have nice penis pictures! a link to the planet quake site or whatever. really make the reader feel this faq really answers their questions. oh yeah, and when you talk about cmdrtaco snotting you, say he brought you to "orgasm after sweaty orgasm". describe it more is all i'm saying. and use more italics and bolding! and when you talk about jon katz shitting or whatever have a link to fecal japan on rotten.com
      
      other wise a great job wipo troll! keep up the good work!

17. Re:CmdrTaco's filthy secret! (Score:-1)
    by Wil Wheaton on 2001.11.18 6:41 (#2580438)
    
    Hi. Let's be buddies.. butt buddies.
    --
    WIL WHEATON DOT NET

18. WIPO speaks the truth (Score:-1)
    by dead_puppy on 2001.11.18 5:33 (#2580342)
    
    Here is an e-mail I received a week ago:
    
    From: malda@slashdot.org
    To: puppy_dead@hotmail.com
    Subject: were where you last friday? :(
    
    I thought we where supposed to meet at Backdoor's at 8-ish, sugar-lips? You could've at least told me that you could'nt make it! I was even in my favorite pink skirt for you, honey-cup... next time, you could be more considarite and tell me you cant come... bastard.
    
    --
    CmdrTaco (malda@slashdot.org)
    
    You finding Ling-Ling's head?

19. Taco snotting is WRONG!!! (Score:-1)
    by Big_Ass_Spork on 2001.11.18 4:53 (#2580300)
    
    I do it wrong
    
    Laying here in the shadows of my room, I squint up at my love. My Ms. Portman. I am sore and tired after fucking her for eight solid hours. My chapped and aching dick is soaking in grits to relieve the pain. She gets on her knees and starts lapping the grits up out of the bowl. She places her beautiful hands on my penis and starts to lick the grits off my achy piece.
    
    Massaging my nutsack she....
    
    WAIT, I DO IT WRONG!!!!
    
    Yanking my dick out of her mouth I throw her to the ground and shove it in to her gaping freshly fisted ass. [goatse.cx]
    
    "OH BIG ASS SPORK!! Fuck my ass, fuck my ass good. DEEPER, my stallion, deeper!! Make a Beowulf cluster of sperm on my back!!"
    
    "Imagine a Beowulf cluster of this baby!"
    
    I DO IT WRONG!!!!
    
    ---
    All your Sporks are belong to Big_Ass_Spork! What you say?! All your Sporks are belo... forget it...

20. Rob Malda Dead at age 25! (Score:-1)
    by j0nkatz on 2001.11.17 22:54 (#2579596)
    
    I just heard some sad news on the radio -- famous queerbait Rob Malda was found dead in his Holland home this morning. The details were a bit hazy, but it seems that he drowned in jizz while Taco Snotting his friend Hemos. I'm sure everyone in the /. community will miss him -- even if you didn't enjoy his queer antics and boring ass website, there's no denying his contributions to the homosesual cultural development, particularly in the areas of Taco snotting. Truly an American icon.
    
    I wanna Open Source sex so it won't be worth a shit either.

21. TACO-SNOTTING is really Donkey-Punching (Score:-1, Troll)
    by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.15 6:38 (#2567601)
    
    No no no, the correct term for that is "donkey-punch". I have eye-witnessed this amazing eye-popping event demonstrated on unsuspecting hose-monsters by my frat brothers in the past.. . :-)

22. Re:the effect of knowlege laws... (Score:1)
    by AbsoluteRelativity on 2001.11.15 5:31 (#2567457)
    
    The WIPO Troll
    Slashdot and the Karma Lottery - News for uber monkeys, by uber monkeys.

23. Re:Taco-Snotting (Score:-1, Troll)
    by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.13 9:27 (#2557632)
    
    Oh, man that's just sick !

24. HOW DO I GET AN ANONYMOUS PROXY? (Score:-1, Troll)
    by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.13 9:03 (#2557604)
    
    TELL ME WHERE I CAN GET AN ANONYMOUS proxy please WIPO Troll. Maybe later i will join you in a snotting at my place. ;P

25. Re:Taco-Snottage!?!?!? (Score:-1, Offtopic)
    by vikool on 2001.11.13 7:43 (#2557495)
    
    what is this bull shit,i feel offened that some people feel so so senseless to post stuff like these esp when such a tragic incident has occured

26. Re:Taco-felching!! (Score:-1)
    by I.T.R.A.R.K. on 2001.11.11 22:38 (#2551890)
    
    Where the fuck do I sign up?!
    
    - I throw rocks at retarded kids
    
    "Adequacy.org: Where congenital stupidity is not an option, but a requirement."

27. Re:Taco-felching!! (Score:-1, Troll)
    by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.11 21:53 (#2551753)
    
    this shit is hilarious..keep up the good work.

28. Re:Taco-felching!! (Score:-1, Offtopic)
    by rockwood on 2001.11.11 21:49 (#2551746)
    
    OMG! That is the most disgusting thing I have ever heard! WHo in their right mind would sit down and waste the time to construct such a replusive story. I guess I'll be skipping lunch and dinner today.. and possibly tomorrow also. The game doesn't affect reality. Reality affects the game.

29. Re:Ban this! It's disgusting!! (Score:0)
    by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.11 14:43 (#2550701)
    
    dude, this is crap-flood material if i ever saw it.
    duuuuuuuuudddddddddddddeeeeeeeee.

30. Re:Taco-Snotting = HATE SPEECH (Score:-1, Flamebait)
    by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.11 8:16 (#2550266)
    
    horny_rob_6969@hotmail.com
    
    Ah, so that's what the alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.horny-rob newsgroup is about!

31. MOD THIS UP PLEASE!!! (Score:-1)
    by egg troll on 2001.11.11 5:34 (#2550024)
    
    +5, Arousing
    
    For more info check out this /. article

32. Re:Taco-Snotting = HATE SPEECH (Score:-1, Offtopic)
    by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.11 4:39 (#2549891)
    
    WINNER>

33. Re:Taco-Snotting = HATE SPEECH (Score:-1, Offtopic)
    by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.11 4:37 (#2549887)
    
    I love you. Why do you use your bitchslapped account, rather than signing up for a new account to post at +1 before getting bitchslapped by the censors here? I guess I should speak for myself, but I don't want to log out and lose all my slashdot customization properties, nor do I want to lose my 50 karma yet.

34. Re:On Taco-Snotting (Score:0)
    by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.09 9:19 (#2542412)
    
    you fucking rock! right down to the expanded cvs id!
    
    WIPO trolls > linux

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Microplanet "Gravity"

[Chelloveck]

I always liked 'trn' under Unix, though I think it's pretty much been orphaned now. I've also heard good things about 'slrn' and 'nn'. All of these are console-based readers. I left the Unix scene too long ago to have found a good reader that runs under X.

Under Win32 I think that Microplanet's Gravity is a fantastic reader. It got orphaned a year or two ago (and the link is down now, so the company may be defunct) but you can still get it from various download sites. Try Webattack.

When Microplanet abandoned it they released the last build (v2.50) as freeware. Good going, guys! I liked it enough to pay for it at v1.1, and I'm glad it's still available.

zeonews and newsgrabber

[Gibbys Box of Trix]

I recently had zeonews recommended to me. It's reminiscient of OE, but shows a lot more functionality. I prefer it to OE and ForteAgent which are the only two I've used regularly.

Zeonews is the latest version of newsgrabber, of which you might be able to get an older version free.

Google

[Bake]

Google Groups is the old DejaNews usenet service.

I've found it to satisfy all of my requirements for an NNTP "client".

Real men read Usenet with tin.

[mfarah]

At least, that's what I always say. I've used tin for ten years now (ever since 1.11PL2), and still is IMNAAHO the best text-based news client.

tin is menu-based, with lots of useful options (and not bloated with irrelevant stuff). The basic usage is very simple, and is pretty configurable. If you have a shell account in your ISP, it's the ideal choice.

Re:Real men read Usenet with tin.

[divbyzero]

Actually, this description might inadvertantly scare people off. While tin is arguably a power-user's tool, it is also extremely user-friendly. If you're comfortable with the Lynx navigation method (basically do everything with the arrow keys), then you'll feel right at home with tin.

OE

[sydbarrett74]

I use good old OE. Whilst it's not very featureful, a lot of the other free newsreaders seem to have stagnated. (Free)Agent hasn't really changed in several years and is looking quite stale. I have not tried Zeonews yet.

gnus

[Snowfox]

I can't imagine using anything other than gnus. Yes, it's got a steep learning curve, and yes you've got to learn emacs to use it. But you can access not only nntp, but a number of web discussion boards, email, mailing lists, even RSS feeds, all with the same client.

gnus allows you to filter posts with a manually controlled (but complex) scoring system, or you can turn on a mode which just watches what you tend to read and ignore, and attempts to filter posts you're not likely to enjoy based on who posted it and "artificial stupidity" performed on keywords in the subject lines.

gnus supports color highlighting of different reply levels within a post, useful for tracking the fragments of a discussion by the time a post is 8 replies into a thread.

You can access it remotely with only a text interface (even in color with xemacs or emacs21), or you can access it locally and have a nice graphical interface. If you're on the road, there's no worry about resetting all your read markers as you go to and from.

gnus is written in elisp, which makes it easy to add features you may want. And there are mailing lists and a newsgroup full of fanatics who love making changes if you've got an interesting idea, but don't have the aptitude to implement it.

And of course, like most emacs components, you can customize the hell out of gnus. If there's anything you don't like, chances are someone's already made a configuration option to change its behavior.

I *LOVE* Tin

[schon]

I've tried tons of newsreaders (GUI and otherwise), but Tin just "does it" for me.

If you have a shell account in your ISP, it's the ideal choice.

Even if you don't - I use Tin with my cablemodem all the time.

MT NewsWatcher

[Anonymous Coward]

On MacOS 8/9, the leader is clearly MT NewsWatcher. I'm surprised Simon hasn't finished the Carbon version yet, but to be fair he's also working on the Mac ports of Mozilla and presumably a real job somewhere.

When I'm in a terminal window, I use trn.

mail=news

[mirabilos]

I'm using /usr/ports/mail/pine for both,
as it's the most convenient interface - if
configured correctly, i.e.
- a shell script to fetchmail -3 -o -
- piping through a filter (removing control characters, just to be sure)
- cat'ing the results (I have 5 accounts) to my ~/mbox
- calling pine, reading mail&news, the latter online

my favorite: slrn

[jermz]

It's simple, text based, and powerful. Combine it with mutt for email, and you have a dynamic duo of electronic messaging!

Forte Agent

[SuperMacNinja]

www.forteinc.com
I use it in Windows and it also works well in Linux using Wine (www.winehq.com). By far my favorite newsreader.

MT-NewsWatcher

[maggard]

Based on John Norstad's orginial widely popular NewsWatcher program Simon Frasier (yes, the same fellow whose done much of the news code for Mozilla) extended it with a number of new features inlcuding multithreading. The result is a rock-solid application of marvelous usability.

Filtering is trivial, writing & managing filters is easily done (and without needing to know any specific notation), scoring is performed identically, saving text and binaries is accomplished cleanly and with versatility, heck it can even be set to use voice commands and read back material. It honors every obscure usenet convention thown at it (mail-copies-to, X-face, etc.) and follows every good usage guideline plus handles multiple languages with aplomb.

Finally the documentation is simply fantastic. If nothing else this makes it a great program: Clear well-written comprehensive documentation properly laid out, indexed, usefully hyperlinked and always helpful. I can't express how important this is and how useful has been.

Oh yeah, it's a free (as in lucre) Mac application running under both MacOS & MacOS X. However MT-NewsWatcher is good enough friends have kept old Macs just for running it; it's that good.

Re:MT-NewsWatcher

[Otter]

I agree -- NewsWatcher and its derivatives (source is available, although I don't know whether the licensing meets zealot standards) are terrific. In particular, I find the SDI interface far easier to use than the paned MDI style in Mozilla, Pan, knode and all the other Unix newsreaders. Does anything comparable exist for Linux?

(I may have SDI and MDI backwards...)

MT-NewsWatcher for Mac

[baz00f]

"MT" for Multi-threaded. Without a doubt the best I've used on any platform. Due for migration to OS X very soon. Multi-threaded NewsWatcher B.

Back From The Dead!

[tomblackwell]

I'll have to second that recommendation. Development of Agent (and it's free little cousin, Free Agent) seemed to stop for a couple years, but Forte has recently released some upgrades. Their site indicates that users will be able to vote for new features on the eagerly anticipated Agent 2.0.

Re:Back From The Dead!

[Marc Boucher]

I can confirm this. I'm on the beta team for version 1.9.
We're still waiting for beta 2.0 to begin. :)

Netscape does a good job

[robvasquez]

I really like Netscape's mail/news better than Outlook Express. OE is very close, but not quite. I've used Netscape since 2.x to read newsgroups and mail...

Their browser on the other hand....

The old OS/2 news reader - NR/2

[zoward]

This was the first news reader I ever used, and I have yet to find one I like as much. It seems like each newsreader I come across has three "panes" - one to display the newsgroups, one for the headers of the currently active newsgroup, and one for the message currently being viewed. NR/2 had these in separate windows, so you could place them and overlap them as you saw fit, allowing you to maximize your screen real estate. Has anyone found a reader like this for Linux?

Wrong Acronym

[Anonymous Coward]

I think you mean 'NNRP' client.

MT-Newswatcher

[Orbital Sander]

One of the many forks of John Norstad's NewsWatcher code, MT-NewsWatcher boasts a very good feature set and smooth operation. Hope the MacOSX port goes well.

best web ntp client

[Anonymous Coward]

http://www.gnab.net is by far the best nntp site =)

http://www.gnab.net

[Anonymous Coward]

http://www.gnab.net

I ask slashdotted this

[Anonymous Coward]

It didn't get posted =(

You give it a shot.

Re:I ask slashdotted this

[Anonymous Coward]

I've downloaded IE5 for Solaris and will give it a try on my FBSD4.4 box. I've had IE4 working with Wine on Linux a while back. Didn't give it a thorough thrashing but everything I tried with it worked as good as the OS it was designed for.

nn (was: Re:Forte agent

[Phil-14]

Actually, I've tried everything else, but I've
gone back to nn. Especially since the
debian nn is finally functional again.

So scoring isn't as finely graduated as other
newsreaders. It still kicks butt, IMHO.

Mozilla

[Lao-Tzu]

Currently I like using Mozilla to access my mail and news simultaniously, as well as have access to a MOO client (MOOzilla) and a web browser all with one package. It is, however, a tad buggy.. I find that some newsgroups consistantly cause the mailer to crash, and I haven't yet gotten a resolution for this bug.

I used to use a perl script I wrote, fetchnews, to read newsgroups and deposit them into mboxes for use with Mutt. Posting to USENET was done by sending to local nntp-alt.bitterness, or whatever newsgroup, which used a qmail wrapper script to send the mail out properly. It was a nice setup, but since I've lost most of the configuration, I've switched to Mozilla.

KDE KNODE for me

[Peter H.S.]

When I ran windows, Forte Agent from forteinc.com, really was the best nntp client I knew of.
I has some drawbacks though: It was cumbersome to use with more than one news.server, the built-in editor was very simple.
The pros:
Fast to load, fast responsive navigation, good keyboard shortcuts. Self contained in one directory, with nice text based config files, making it very easy to move it around, and preserve settings when reinstalling windows.
Nice, easely used options like; watch or ignore threads. Very powerfull 'per group' options, like .sig settings, whether to download bodies or headers only, expire criterias etc.
I think that Forte Agent was something of a trendsetter regarding GUI newsreaders in its time. And it was and offline newsreader, which really meant something when using a pay per minute modem connection.

Now my preferred nntp client is is KDE Knode, or rather it is not, since our current internet feed provider doesn't have usenet feed:-(, and the free newsservers, don't carry a some of the groups I am interested in.
But so far, Knode seems even more powerfull than Forte Agent in most respects.
Still, it lacks 'per group' expire options (a major letdown for me). And "Score killfiling" is not enough for me, I want real killfilling, eg. delete on the spot.

OTOH, it some really, really nifty features like ">" quote marked text, excellent PGP /GPG support (not sure what to use it for, but I like it anyway)

All in all, Knode is a powerfull nntp client.
Superpimps "Pan" (GNOME) looks nice too (especially if one likes Forte Agent). Haven't used it in a long time, but AFAIK one of its main features, is its abillity to have several, concurrent downloads, from different servers.

tin

[LazyBoy]

www.tin.org

I prefer keyboard navigation to read large quantities of news faster. Tin provides that and article threading.

A lot of other non-gui newsreaders are probably
just as good, but I'm used to the keystrokes.

LazyBoy

xmosaic

[Anonymous Coward]

My own favorite was NCSA Mosaic, mostly used on X Windows systems, hence xmosaic. The part of the interface that I really liked was that once I had gone to a newsgroup of interest all postings were listed with full subject headers. That made it quite easy to visually scan the wheat from the chafe. I thought that the Netscape NNTP interface was a step backwards. The listing of server hierarchies, then newsgroup hierarchies on the left panel is completely useless. I realize that it can be reduced in size via the non-intuituve "hold the mouse over the widget separator bar click and move interface". But xmosaic did that one step better and removed that sub widget display altogether - much cleaner. If you wanted to browse the group hiearchy then you simply entered nntp://your.nntp.server/ rather than nntp://your.nntp.server/your.favorite.group.name.

Re: trn

[acoopersmith]

trn is still slowly under development (http://trn.sourceforge.net/) and version 4 is pretty stable and still my favorite newsreader, despite being in beta for the better part of a decade.

Make it a /. Poll

[slashdot_commentator]

I hate redundancy, but a poll would give you a better consensus from the /. reader base, AND you'll still get "detailed" opinions in the replies. (Besides, I like the poll option after PAN to be "Pimply Assed Cowboy Neal"...