questions about text-based e-mail

[Gaijin]

On Sun, Sep 05, 2010 at 09:39:12PM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> You were asking about text mail readers but wanna use them for news as
> well.  Mutt is great for e-mail but I can't see how one could read
> news with it.

	I used to use slrn for news, as it seemed to have the most 
features back when I had a newsfeed...back in 02.  Havent looked at 
either tin or slrn since losing my sight, so couldn't make a 
recommendation, but I second the mutt recommendation.  Love it I keep 
learning new things about it all the time, and it works fantastically 
with SpeakUP.  Once you get rid of the on-screen menubars, mutt is a 
pretty quiet, massively functional email client.

				Michael