slrn is a

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based news client for multiple operating systems, developed by John E. Davis and others. It was originally developed in 1994 for Unix-like

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s and VMS, and now also supports

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. It supports

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s to highlight, sort or kill articles based on information from their header. It is customizable, allows free

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and can be extended using the

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macro language.

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reading is possible by using either slrnpull (included with slrn) or a local newsserver (like

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). slrn is

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. slrn was maintained by Thomas Schultz from 2000 to 2007, with the help of others who made contributions, but development is now again followed by the original author, John E. Davis. Current development focuses on better support for different character sets and tighter integration of the S-Lang language processor. Version 1.0.0 of slrn was released on December 21, 2012, 18 years after the first release. The latest release is 1.0.3 on October 23, 2016. Historically slrn was the starting point for many

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users. slrn is still a compromise between features, resource usage and simplicity.

Operation

slrn is fully controlled with the keyboard, and new messages are composed with an external

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Name

The slrn name derives from the use of

and its function to read news.

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* * Free Usenet clients Software that uses S-Lang GNOME Applications Software using the GPL license {{network-software-stub

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