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-version 1.1, 2001/10/31 21:03:50
+version 1.2, 2014/08/23 09:34:48
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- Slrn is a terminal based newsreader by John E. Davis <davis@space.mit.edu>.
+ slrn ('S-Lang read news') is a newsreader, i.e. a program that accesses a
- It supports threads and is highly customizable through S-Lang functions.
+ newsserver to read messages from the Internet News service (also known as
+ 'Usenet'). It runs in console mode on various Unix-like systems (including
- In this package, there is only support for NNTP, not for local spool.
+ Linux), 32-bit Windows, OS/2, BeOS and VMS. Beside the usual features of a
+ newsreader slrn supports scoring rules to highlight, sort or kill articles
+ based on information from their header. It is highly customizable, allows
+ free key-bindings and can easily be extended using the sophisticated
+ S-Lang macro language. Offline reading is possible by using either
+ slrnpull (shipped with slrn) or a local newsserver (like leafnode or INN).