[SlugBug] newsreaders

[Peter Collier]

On Saturday 26 November 2005 23:41, Craig Andrews wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 12:29:14PM +0000, Andy Davidson wrote:
> > If you're harvesting binaries, then ubh is good.  If you're trying
> > to talk to people, I still find that slrn is the best choice, easy
> > to use, very customisable, and powerful scoring features.
>
> I have found slrn's binary harvesting to be very useful, especially
> for multipart binaries. Use the '#' key to numerically select the
> posts containing the parts of the encoded binary in the correct
> order, then just press ':'. It downloads the bits, puts them together
> and decodes them in all in one step. Just make sure you have
> uu{en,de}code and y{en,de}code installed first.

Thanks everyone. This lot will keep me occupied for a while.

Peter C