From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2002-10-09T01:30:51+09:00
Subject: [OT] Re: block vars (some theory)

On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 10:30:01PM +0900, Lyle Johnson wrote:
> dblack@candle.superlink.net wrote:
> 
> >Sigh.  I've kill-filed him, but apparently the attempt to get rid of
> >even replies *to* him didn't work.  I'll check my .procmailrc again.
> 
> I'm using Mozilla to read the Usenet newsgroup (comp.lang.ruby) instead 
> of being subscribed to the ruby-talk mailing list directly. Does anyone 
> know if there's a "killfile" equivalent for Mozilla's news reader? It's 
> not jumping out at me. Barring that, do any of the other good news 
> clients for Linux have such a feature?

slrn

for a lot a people, the best console newsreader. I used it *a lot*
back when I was following es.comp.linux.* (spanish linux hierarchy,
about 500 msg/day)
 
If you absolutely want X, I think KNews or pan should do the trick (but
I haven't used them at all).

BTW, it's funny that the random fortune cookie below was precisely this
one (slrn is partially implemented in S-Lang, its scripting engine)

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