On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, in the Usenet newsgroup alt.os.linux, in article
<IjTij.14244$6%.7545@nlpi061.nbdc.sbc.com>, Ericus Lin wrote:

>Moe Trin wrote:

>> You also appear to be using a web browser to read the news - I
>> can't help with that. There are a VERY large number of newsgroups.
>
>Hopefully, my initial to, "I can't help with that," is correct:
>
>I am, in fact, using Mozilla SeaMonkey to read the "news." I was
>obsessed with using console-only two years ago (I ditched X),

Actually, that was referring to the steps needed to get a list of the
available newsgroups from your news server. I also use X, but it's
to provide a lot more consoles - there's 21 text terminals open at the
moment.

>I choose which program to use based on my needs and time.

Which is fine. It is your system.

>For instance, I normally use SeaMonkey to browse the web; because it
>offers the convenient feature of being able to load its mail/newsreader
>quickly when another of its components is already loaded; I use its
>newsreader.

I'm a network guy, so I'm running text for virtually everything.

>Sometimes, I need to use my computer to do a quick e-mail check or look
>something up on a reference site; I find it unnecessary to change my
>default runlevel. If I need something quickly, I boot my computer,
>which takes less than a minute, log in, use mutt or lynx to do whatever
>I need to do, and shutdown. It's convenient, it's fast, and it fulfills
>my needs.

Ignoring work, I still have several computers running 24/7. Different
needs.

>Having just begun to use newsgroups, I have not yet found an instance in
>which I found it necessary to read my news quickly

You may not find such a need. I subscribe to 80 newsgroups at the moment,
and need to be able to scan those groups for interesting things. The news
gives me a "heads up" for job related subjects.

>Until I find one, I shall continue to use SeaMonkey.

As noted at the bottom of the FAQ, I find the filtering capability well
worth while. Some of the groups I need to scan also have significant
troll populations, and the filtering improves the signal/noise ratio.

Old guy