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Date: Sun, 1 May 1994 23:51:27 GMT
From: sjacobs@maroon.tc.umn.edu (Steve Jacobson)
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Subject: Re: Chameleon (Hows that newsreader?)
In article <ind00371.14.0009E41B@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu> ind00371@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu (the .\\aster) writes:
>From: ind00371@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu (the .\\aster)
>Subject: Chameleon (Hows that newsreader?)
>Date: Sat, 30 Apr 1994 09:53:23
>In article <Cp1Eqn.FH2@dorsai.org> carlos@dorsai.org (Carlos Dominguez) writes:
>>Go purchase the the NETMANAGE INTERNET CHAMELEON package.
>>It supports PPP, winsock 1.1, and wfwg 3.11. I use it, and am happy
>>with it so far.
>I have the demo version and am quite happy with it as well, but I have one
>question, what is your opinion of the newsreader in the full version? does
>it support kill files and the like? all of the freeware news readers have
>been dismal, if they even ran, the news reader is the only other part of the
>package that I have any use for, but I suppose I could scrimp and save if it's
>a decent reader.
The newsreader is so slow IMHO it is unusable. Netmanage claims it will be
improved in a future release. If you want a good newsreader, use Trumpet.
The rest of the Chameleon package is OK.
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