Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the copyright notices on the relevant files. =================================================================== RCS file: /ftp/cvs/cvsroot/pkgsrc/news/slrn/DESCR,v rcsdiff: /ftp/cvs/cvsroot/pkgsrc/news/slrn/DESCR,v: warning: Unknown phrases like `commitid ...;' are present. retrieving revision 1.1 retrieving revision 1.2 diff -u -p -r1.1 -r1.2 --- pkgsrc/news/slrn/DESCR 2001/10/31 21:03:50 1.1 +++ pkgsrc/news/slrn/DESCR 2014/08/23 09:34:48 1.2 @@ -1,4 +1,9 @@ -Slrn is a terminal based newsreader by John E. Davis . -It supports threads and is highly customizable through S-Lang functions. - -In this package, there is only support for NNTP, not for local spool. +slrn ('S-Lang read news') is a newsreader, i.e. a program that accesses a +newsserver to read messages from the Internet News service (also known as +'Usenet'). It runs in console mode on various Unix-like systems (including +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).