On Wed, May 09, 2018 at 06:52:34PM +0000, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote:
On 05/09/2018 02:17 PM, Rich Alderson via cctalk wrote:
From: Seth Morabito
Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2018 9:23 AM
As an aside: If you were active on Usenet in
1989, what software were you
using?
1988-89 is about when I started reading Usenet newsgroups. At first, I
used
rn under Ultrix (on a VAX 3600, the staff Ultrix system at LOTS), but soon
switched to Gnews (different from GNUS) under Emacs 18.59 because it saved
messages into an RMail format mailbox file for later access. Once I had that I
almost never used any of the Unix-y newsreaders.
(I had to switch to GNUS when Emacs 19 came out, but that's another story.)
By 1989 I was using Knews as most of what I did was on real
workstations.? I am using Thunderbird at the moment but am
seriously thinking about going back to Knews.
bill
1989 was a bit before my time, Usenet-wise (I was still hitting the BBS scene
at the time), but around '93-94 when I got my first Unix shell account, I
recall using nn, but not terribly often (I mean, gopher was _right there_ for
the taking!).
These days I use slrn from an OpenBSD box.
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