[Info-vax] Open Source on OpenVMS - A Progress Report

[Phillip Helbig---remove CLOTHES to reply]

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<32e2980a-162f-4f53-b640-cc8fa4c38401 at j19g2000vbp.googlegroups.com>,
MetaEd <metaed at gmail.com> writes: 

> On Oct 20, 6:54 am, hel... at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---
> remove CLOTHES to reply) wrote:
> > I am using NEWSRDR. [...]
> > Is anyone aware of any other newsreader which runs on VAX and ALPHA and
> > Itanium and has a character-cell interface?
> 
> According to http://lynx.browser.org/ there was support for VMS, NNTP,
> and MIME in Lynx 2.8.5.

Yes, LYNX can read news.  Most web browsers can.  However, a real 
newsreader has additional features, such as the ability to mark threads 
as seen etc.