Subj : NNTP(S) via Thunderbird
To   : Mindsurfer
From : Accession
Date : Tue Nov 04 2025 16:38:40

Hey Mindsurfer!

On Tue, 04 Nov 2025 11:22:00 +0000, you wrote:

 > So far i like Pan the most. i think Thunderbird is not really perfect
 > for Newsgroups. It can do it but not very good.

I'd tend to agree with that. Also, Thunderbird ditched support for most of the character sets and codepages we still use with BBSing and FTN, a long time ago.

 > btw: can one of the newsreaders render/display ansi codes?

I believe I answered this already. No.

It can display "high ascii" properly, just not ansi/color.

 > What does it take to use Golded with Synchronet? it does run on the same
 > machine as Synchronet?

It takes a little bit of messing about, but not too much. However, while I tested Golded with Synchronet quite a bit, that's not how I use it normally. There's too many quirks that I don't like, and it doesn't look like Golded will be updated to work better with Synchronet any time soon.

1) Netmail doesn't work. You can read the mail base, but you'll break stuff if you try to write to it.

2) You have to completely disable Synchronet's "voting" feature, and completely clear your message bases of any "voting" messages. Golded doesn't understand it, and will display blank messages and then jump back to the first message in the area - completely ruining any chance of reading messages in order, or keeping last read pointers in tact.

If you don't mind any of that, then it works great afterwards. It was definitely enough for me to move on to other options. ;)

Regards,
Nick

.... Sarcasm: because beating people up is illegal.
--- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5-b20250409
 * Origin: _thePharcyde telnet://bbs.pharcyde.org (Wisconsin) (723:1/1)
 ￭ Synchronet ￭ _thePharcyde telnet://bbs.pharcyde.org (Wisconsin)

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