roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) (01/15/91)
I want to replace the old cruddy msgs system on our network with
something integrated into our news system. People who read news regularly
can pick up the messages by reading phri.general (or whatever), but I'd
like to have a very lightweight nntp user agent that non-news-reading
people can run from their .login files (and which we would put in the
default .login we set new users up with) which will allow them to read just
that one group without having to really learn anything about news. It
probably only needs a couple of commands, say "go to next message", "go
back to previous message", "save message in a file", "reply to message" and
"quit". It needs to be small enough that it starts up and exits quickly if
there is nothing new to read. Does such a beast exist?
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