The *rn family of newsreaders are the most widely-used on USENET -- even to the point of being a de-facto standard. They have a powerful full screen text mode user interface, where most actions are available at the press of a single key, and are highly configurable.
This is a temporary package of the latest of the line, strn. There is a version of trn in beta test which subsumes strn's features, so this package will disappear when that version of trn is packaged.
This version of strn reads news from a news server via NNTP (the Network News Transfer Protocol). You must have a news server available - large sites usually provide a site-wide server.
If you install a news server on your system (either containing just local newsgroups or with a partial or full USENET feed) you can configure strn to access it.
This version of strn is MIME-enabled, but to have strn extract and process the body of a MIME message appropriately, you'll need the mh package installed. If you don't, strn will only be able to display MIME articles as plain ASCII text.
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| i386 | 369.2 kB | 993 kB | [list of files] |