tin
Tin is a powerful text mode news reader. It features threaded news reading, regex driven killfiles/message selections, pgp encryption, ispell support, and can read from both a local spool or from a remote NNTP server.
| Tags | Communications Usenet News |
|---|---|
| Licenses | BSD Original BSD Revised |
| Implementation | C |
| Translations | English Estonian French German |
Recent releases
- 25 Dec 2011 20:44
Release Notes: This release fixed a crash in the scope menu and a misleading error message for attributes with the now scope. It fixes a crash with ncurses6. It updates the Estonian and French translations. It adds support for 64-bit article numbers. It has reduced memory usage if getart_limit is set, and IDNA 2008 support if libidnkit is installed.
- 25 Dec 2011 20:44
Release Notes: This release fixed a crash in the scope menu and a misleading error message for attributes with the now scope. It fixes a crash with ncurses6. It updates the Estonian and French translations.
- 23 Aug 2011 09:31
Release Notes: Several display problems (mainly color related) when not using the curses interface were fixed. New ccTLDs and IDN ccTLDs were added to the list of valid TLDs. Command line switches were added for forcing IPv4 or IPv6 connections.
- 27 Nov 2010 03:59
Release Notes: This release adds URL-level ('U'), attachment level ('V'), and message/RFC 822 parsing, and fixes several minor bugs.
- 24 Dec 2009 13:06
Release Notes: Scope and attributes menu were added. Starting was sped up when "-n" is used. Several bugs were fixed.
Recent comments
Inofficial debian-packages
I am keeping inofficial debian-packages (binary+small debian-diff) of _unstable_ tin on
www.logic.univie.ac.at...
Use at your own risk and don't bug the Debian BTS.
cu andreas
Very good news reader.
I found it to be very stable, easy to use and with just the right amount of features. This software makes it very easy to download multi-part attachments and it handles loads (8000+) of headers without any problem. I love it!
Heartbeat
- Popularity Score
- 294.86
- Vitality Score
- 74.93
- Subscriptions
- 51
