Hey guys,

Any of you use newsreaders from the commandline. I'm using an old laptop with
debian and I read a lot of news everyday and loading the websites seems such a
pain and slow process. Besides, nothing beats the commandline.

Any good recommendations?

Thanks,
Amit


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On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 07:29:30AM +0000, Amit Uttamchandani wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> Any of you use newsreaders from the commandline. I'm using an old laptop with
> debian and I read a lot of news everyday and loading the websites seems such a
> pain and slow process. Besides, nothing beats the commandline.

snownews for RSS, slrn for nntp.

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On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 07:29:30AM +0000, Amit Uttamchandani wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> Any of you use newsreaders from the commandline. I'm using an old laptop with
> debian and I read a lot of news everyday and loading the websites seems such a
> pain and slow process. Besides, nothing beats the commandline.

snownews for RSS, slrn for nntp.

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slrn. Why? Because it also finds private newsgroups on servers as well
as the public newsgroups. Others I've tried can't do that. tin fails
here which surprised me.



On Mon, 6 Aug 2007, Amit Uttamchandani wrote:

> Hey guys,
>
> Any of you use newsreaders from the commandline. I'm using an old laptop with
> debian and I read a lot of news everyday and loading the websites seems such a
> pain and slow process. Besides, nothing beats the commandline.
>
> Any good recommendations?
>
> Thanks,
> Amit
>
>
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slrn. Why? Because it also finds private newsgroups on servers as well
as the public newsgroups. Others I've tried can't do that. tin fails
here which surprised me.



On Mon, 6 Aug 2007, Amit Uttamchandani wrote:

> Hey guys,
>
> Any of you use newsreaders from the commandline. I'm using an old laptop with
> debian and I read a lot of news everyday and loading the websites seems such a
> pain and slow process. Besides, nothing beats the commandline.
>
> Any good recommendations?
>
> Thanks,
> Amit
>
>
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Amit writes:
> Any of you use newsreaders from the commandline.

I doubt anyone uses a command-line newsreader but many use text-only
newsreaders such as slrn and trn. I use gnus, which can be either
text-only on a console or GUI in X.

> I'm using an old laptop with debian and I read a lot of news everyday and
> loading the websites seems such a pain and slow process.

What do Web sites have to do with news?
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John Hasler <jhasler <at> debian.org> writes:

>
> Amit writes:
> > Any of you use newsreaders from the commandline.
>
> I doubt anyone uses a command-line newsreader but many use text-only
> newsreaders such as slrn and trn. I use gnus, which can be either
> text-only on a console or GUI in X.
>
> > I'm using an old laptop with debian and I read a lot of news everyday and
> > loading the websites seems such a pain and slow process.
>
> What do Web sites have to do with news?

News websites such as cnn, news.com, nytimes, etc. They have too many graphics
and ads which are not necessary. I guess I'm just looking for a more efficient
may to read the news.



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Thanks for all the suggestions!


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On 17:39 Mon 06 Aug , Amit Uttamchandani wrote:
> John Hasler <jhasler <at> debian.org> writes:
>
> >
> > Amit writes:
> > > Any of you use newsreaders from the commandline.
> >
> > I doubt anyone uses a command-line newsreader but many use text-only
> > newsreaders such as slrn and trn. I use gnus, which can be either
> > text-only on a console or GUI in X.
> >
> > > I'm using an old laptop with debian and I read a lot of news everyday and
> > > loading the websites seems such a pain and slow process.
> >
> > What do Web sites have to do with news?
>
> News websites such as cnn, news.com, nytimes, etc. They have too many graphics
> and ads which are not necessary. I guess I'm just looking for a more efficient
> may to read the news.
>
>

links2 - no fuss

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> That's a different beast - by asking for a newsreader, you got
> recommendations for usenet newsreaders...

You are right. I actually meant RSS newsreaders. Thank you for clearing it up.

Amit




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>>>>> "Amit" == Amit Uttamchandani <amit.uttam@gmail.com> writes:

> John Hasler <jhasler <at> debian.org> writes:
>> What do Web sites have to do with news?

> News websites such as cnn, news.com, nytimes, etc. They
> have too many graphics and ads which are not necessary. I
> guess I'm just looking for a more efficient may to read the
> news.

That's a different beast - by asking for a newsreader, you got
recommendations for usenet newsreaders...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsreader
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_client

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On 18:09 Mon 06 Aug , Amit Uttamchandani wrote:
>
> > That's a different beast - by asking for a newsreader, you got
> > recommendations for usenet newsreaders...
>
> You are right. I actually meant RSS newsreaders. Thank you for clearing it up.
>
> Amit
>

Ah, now I see what you're after.

This may not be quite what you're looking for but:-

http://linux.softpedia.com/get/Offic...il-24912.shtml

Looks fairly minimal but maybe that's what you want.

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Amit writes:
> Any of you use newsreaders from the commandline.

I wrote:
> What do Web sites have to do with news?

> News websites such as cnn, news.com, nytimes, etc.

"Newsreader" means _Usenet_.

> They have too many graphics and ads which are not necessary. I guess I'm
> just looking for a more efficient may to read the news.

You want an adblocker for your Web browser. I use Privoxy.
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> You want an adblocker for your Web browser. I use Privoxy.

I just checked out the Privoxy web site. Very interesting. I will definitely
give it a try. Do you notice any downsides to using Privoxy? Mainly speed issues
when loading web pages?




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> You want an adblocker for your Web browser. I use Privoxy.

I just checked out the Privoxy web site. Very interesting. I will definitely
give it a try. Do you notice any downsides to using Privoxy? Mainly speed issues
when loading web pages?




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Amit writes:
> I just checked out the Privoxy web site. Very interesting. I will
> definitely give it a try. Do you notice any downsides to using Privoxy?

No. Note that there is a Privoxy package in Debian,
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Ah, that kind of news! apt-get snownews then.



On Mon, 6 Aug 2007, John K Masters wrote:

> On 17:39 Mon 06 Aug , Amit Uttamchandani wrote:
>> John Hasler <jhasler <at> debian.org> writes:
>>
>>>
>>> Amit writes:
>>>> Any of you use newsreaders from the commandline.
>>>
>>> I doubt anyone uses a command-line newsreader but many use text-only
>>> newsreaders such as slrn and trn. I use gnus, which can be either
>>> text-only on a console or GUI in X.
>>>
>>>> I'm using an old laptop with debian and I read a lot of news everyday and
>>>> loading the websites seems such a pain and slow process.
>>>
>>> What do Web sites have to do with news?
>>
>> News websites such as cnn, news.com, nytimes, etc. They have too many graphics
>> and ads which are not necessary. I guess I'm just looking for a more efficient
>> may to read the news.
>>
>>
>
> links2 - no fuss
>
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snownews is a cli rss reader and I use it. Maybe I'm the only one to do
so, since I haven't yet got orca talking in Debian but there it is.



On Mon, 6 Aug 2007, Amit Uttamchandani wrote:

> John Hasler <jhasler <at> debian.org> writes:
>
>>
>> Amit writes:
>>> Any of you use newsreaders from the commandline.
>>
>> I doubt anyone uses a command-line newsreader but many use text-only
>> newsreaders such as slrn and trn. I use gnus, which can be either
>> text-only on a console or GUI in X.
>>
>>> I'm using an old laptop with debian and I read a lot of news everyday and
>>> loading the websites seems such a pain and slow process.
>>
>> What do Web sites have to do with news?
>
> News websites such as cnn, news.com, nytimes, etc. They have too many graphics
> and ads which are not necessary. I guess I'm just looking for a more efficient
> may to read the news.
>
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safari has rss capabilities already built in.




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Hi, John,

On Aug 06 2007, John Hasler wrote:
> Amit writes:
> > They have too many graphics and ads which are not necessary. I guess
> > I'm just looking for a more efficient may to read the news.
>
> You want an adblocker for your Web browser. I use Privoxy.

This is indeed a very good recommendation and I think that privoxy is
way better than using something like an extension to Firefox, as it is
browser agnostic.


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Hi, John,

On Aug 06 2007, John Hasler wrote:
> Amit writes:
> > They have too many graphics and ads which are not necessary. I guess
> > I'm just looking for a more efficient may to read the news.
>
> You want an adblocker for your Web browser. I use Privoxy.

This is indeed a very good recommendation and I think that privoxy is
way better than using something like an extension to Firefox, as it is
browser agnostic.


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On Aug 06 2007, Kumar Appaiah wrote:
> snownews for RSS, slrn for nntp.

What about using mutt-ng for this task, especially if you are already
using Mutt for e-mails?

I have never used the newsgroup feature of mutt-ng (and, BTW, I'm not
using mutt-ng), but I would be interested in knowing the opinions of
others.


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On Aug 06 2007, Kumar Appaiah wrote:
> snownews for RSS, slrn for nntp.

What about using mutt-ng for this task, especially if you are already
using Mutt for e-mails?

I have never used the newsgroup feature of mutt-ng (and, BTW, I'm not
using mutt-ng), but I would be interested in knowing the opinions of
others.


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On Mon, 6 Aug 2007 19:03:57 +0100
John K Masters <johnmasters@oxtedonline.net> wrote:

> On 17:39 Mon 06 Aug , Amit Uttamchandani wrote:

[snip]

> > News websites such as cnn, news.com, nytimes, etc. They have too many graphics
> > and ads which are not necessary. I guess I'm just looking for a more efficient
> > may to read the news.
> >
> >
>
> links2 - no fuss

Or just instruct your browser not to load images automatically.

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Amit Uttamchandani wrote:
> You are right. I actually meant RSS newsreaders. Thank you for
> clearing it up.

I can't believe that no one has mentioned 'raggle' yet.

Raggle is a console RSS (RDF Site Summary) aggregator. Features
include: customizable keybindings, basic HTML rendering, HTTP proxy
support, OPML import/export, themes, support for various versions of
RSS, browser auto-detection, bookmarks and more.

Bob


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