TheChris wrote:
> SB <sb@timelife.org> wrote in news:glt3vm$vsj$1@news.motzarella.org:
>
>> TheChris wrote:
>>
>>>> Well, it's more like when you're in a room with baseboard heating, or
>>> an
>>>> iron or a hair dryer on...There's a certain smell that hot air has for
>>>> me... It didn't smell like AF, it just was like, 'Hey, that's a
>>> different
>>>> smell!"
>>> Yeah, I've been noticing that... I like that I can run it from my USB
>>> stick though
>> If you're somehow attempting to reply to my comment about Xnews, you
>> should know that Mozilla Thunderbird, as well as Firefox both are
>> available as portable apps that will run off of a thumb drive. I run
>> both on a 2GB thumb drive on the work box 10 hours a day, 4 days a week
>> w/o a hitch.
>>
>> Google portable apps.
>>
>
> Yeah, I use ALL the Portable Apps - even 'Mac on a Stick'
>
> Which are you using as a NewsReader?

currently using Thunderbird on this 2 gig stick. nice for work, ya pull
the thign out and no residual left behind for prying eyes :-) i'm using
T-bird also on a linux box as well as the xp boxes and laptop. i've
played with just about all of the newsreader apps over the years. for
solid dependable service T-bird does it for me. may stem back to my
beta testing days of netscape navigator and communicator i haven't
looked but there may even be a sea monkey portable app out there also.
i currently use Pan also. like x-news (IIRC) it handles multi-part
binaries where as T-bird doesn't.

 

SB <sb@timelife.org> wrote in news:glv4rr$7g7$1@news.motzarella.org:

> TheChris wrote:
>> SB <sb@timelife.org> wrote in news:glt3vm$vsj$1@news.motzarella.org:
>>
>>> TheChris wrote:
>>>
>>>>> Well, it's more like when you're in a room with baseboard heating,
>>>>> or
>>>> an
>>>>> iron or a hair dryer on...There's a certain smell that hot air has
>>>>> for me... It didn't smell like AF, it just was like, 'Hey, that's
>>>>> a
>>>> different
>>>>> smell!"
>>>> Yeah, I've been noticing that... I like that I can run it from my
>>>> USB stick though
>>> If you're somehow attempting to reply to my comment about Xnews,
>>> you
>>> should know that Mozilla Thunderbird, as well as Firefox both are
>>> available as portable apps that will run off of a thumb drive. I
>>> run both on a 2GB thumb drive on the work box 10 hours a day, 4 days
>>> a week w/o a hitch.
>>>
>>> Google portable apps.
>>>
>>
>> Yeah, I use ALL the Portable Apps - even 'Mac on a Stick'
>>
>> Which are you using as a NewsReader?
>
> currently using Thunderbird on this 2 gig stick. nice for work, ya
> pull the thign out and no residual left behind for prying eyes :-)
> i'm using T-bird also on a linux box as well as the xp boxes and
> laptop. i've played with just about all of the newsreader apps over
> the years. for solid dependable service T-bird does it for me. may
> stem back to my beta testing days of netscape navigator and
> communicator i haven't looked but there may even be a sea monkey
> portable app out there also. i currently use Pan also. like x-news
> (IIRC) it handles multi-part binaries where as T-bird doesn't.
>

Me too... I take Newsreaders VERY personally I only thought
Thunderbird did mail.. Doesn't the mail portion of it bloat up the app?

I grew up with all the Unix apps... vi, edlin - so, I like thing that
look like xnews...I'll look into Pan... Thanks.

 

The Chris wrote:
> SB <sb@timelife.org> wrote in news:glv4rr$7g7$1@news.motzarella.org:
>
>> TheChris wrote:
>>> SB <sb@timelife.org> wrote in news:glt3vm$vsj$1@news.motzarella.org:
>>>
>>>> TheChris wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> Well, it's more like when you're in a room with baseboard heating,
>>>>>> or
>>>>> an
>>>>>> iron or a hair dryer on...There's a certain smell that hot air has
>>>>>> for me... It didn't smell like AF, it just was like, 'Hey, that's
>>>>>> a
>>>>> different
>>>>>> smell!"
>>>>> Yeah, I've been noticing that... I like that I can run it from my
>>>>> USB stick though
>>>> If you're somehow attempting to reply to my comment about Xnews,
>>>> you
>>>> should know that Mozilla Thunderbird, as well as Firefox both are
>>>> available as portable apps that will run off of a thumb drive. I
>>>> run both on a 2GB thumb drive on the work box 10 hours a day, 4 days
>>>> a week w/o a hitch.
>>>>
>>>> Google portable apps.
>>>>
>>> Yeah, I use ALL the Portable Apps - even 'Mac on a Stick'
>>>
>>> Which are you using as a NewsReader?
>> currently using Thunderbird on this 2 gig stick. nice for work, ya
>> pull the thign out and no residual left behind for prying eyes :-)
>> i'm using T-bird also on a linux box as well as the xp boxes and
>> laptop. i've played with just about all of the newsreader apps over
>> the years. for solid dependable service T-bird does it for me. may
>> stem back to my beta testing days of netscape navigator and
>> communicator i haven't looked but there may even be a sea monkey
>> portable app out there also. i currently use Pan also. like x-news
>> (IIRC) it handles multi-part binaries where as T-bird doesn't.
>>
>
> Me too... I take Newsreaders VERY personally I only thought
> Thunderbird did mail.. Doesn't the mail portion of it bloat up the app?


Some. Price of convenience I suppose. It's certainly not a cpu hog in
any manner.

>
> I grew up with all the Unix apps... vi, edlin - so, I like thing that
> look like xnews...I'll look into Pan... Thanks.

Ever mess around w/ Tin?
http://www.tin.org/

here's a 'few' others.
http://www.newsreaders.com/unix/utilities.html