Don't waste time on offline newsreaders...

[Michael Alan Dorman <mdorman boxster law miami edu>]

Under DOS/Win, offline newsreaders may be a necessary evil, but as
we're talking Unix, we've no obligation to restrict ourselves to
solutions appropriate for broken OSs.

Specifically, there's both leafnode and another, more powerful,
package called NewsCache, that appear as regular NNTP servers, but due
to their caching characteristics can work as much more flexible,
off-line sites.  In fact NewsCache allows you to do other, related
stuff like seamlessly aggregating multiple NNTP servers.

Really, doing anything other than a straight NNTP reader is probably a
waste of effort.  You're duplicating work that's best done elsewhere.

Mike.
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