newsreaders on linux

Sorry, fingure trouble, wrong group

I do, at home... Thunderbird for text groups. Pan and/or hellanzb for binaries.

oops, you said command line. There's a whole following of command line types using slrn/tin/mutt/etc. Whenever talk goes OT onto newsreaders, someone always points out alt..newsreaders, where all the GUI challenged hang out.

"Keith Barratt" schrieb im Newsbeitrag news: snipped-for-privacy@usenet.plus.net...

If you want to to it the hard way... Within any terminal application telnet my.newsserver.address 119 connects you to your newsserver on port 119

Well, if you happen to use Emacs as your editor with slrn then you might try Gnus (M-x gnus). Very powerful newsreader with the benefit that it works the same in any Emacs on any platform, if you have to use other platforms sometimes.

I have heard good things about pan but have never used that; that may require GNOME.

Here's a list of options: