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[John Aldrich]

On Saturday 25 September 2004 02:06 am, Kenneth Porter wrote:
> --On Friday, September 24, 2004 7:34 PM +0200 Alexander Dalloz
>
> <alexander.dalloz at uni-bielefeld.de> wrote:
> > I am using Pan daily. Maybe Thunderbird's newreader capabilities are a
> > candidate for you too.
>
> I use Xnews on Windows. Anyone use it and Pan and can offer a comparison? I
> live by Xnews' scoring feature, so any Linux newsreader I consider would
> have to include that. I also like it's ability to use multiple identities,
> associated with different groups, so I can use one identity for "business"
> groups like comp and another "personal" identity for alt and rec. Xnews
> tags my Message-ID's with an identity-based string and gives messages
> including that string in their references high scores so replies to my
> posts stand out.
>
Pan has scoring, and multiple identities. Give it a shot.