Subj : chrs
To   : Nicholas Boel
From : Gleb Hlebov
Date : Tue Apr 16 2024 10:35:50

On Sat, 13 Apr 2024 02:53:36, Nicholas Boel <0@10.154.1> wrote:

 GH>> Well... I'm sticking with tin at the moment. All in all, from what I've
 GH>> seen so far it behaves quite stable (slrn did freeze a couple of times
 GH>> on re-connecting or opening a newsgroup) and it has a more convenient
 GH>> "on the fly" settings menu, and last but not least, it's even capable of
 GH>> FTN-style quoting.
 NB> I wonder if your slrn freezing a couple times is because it is such an
 NB> old version?

Yep, it seems the authors stopped updating it in 2016. The official
site says 1.0.3 from 2016 is still the most recent build.

 NB> And I did notice tin is able to quote with initials. I may have to test
 NB> that while disabling smartquote in smapinntpd to see if it does it better. :)

What's even better that it can show multi-level quotes in colors unlike many
FTN readers that I've seen so far (e.g. GoldED can only display as many as
2 levels).


-- 
.... You will always have one disk envelope too few. Or too many.

--- FastEcho/2 1.46.1 Revival
 * Origin: nntp://rbb.fidonet.fi - Finland (2:221/1.0)

.