A newsreader, i.e. a program that accesses a newsserver to read messages
from the Internet News service (also known as 'Usenet').
It runs in console mode on various Unix-like systems (including Linux),
32-bit Windows, OS/2, BeOS and VMS.
Beside the usual features of a newsreader slrn supports scoring rules to
highlight, sort or kill articles based on information from their header.
It is highly customizable, allows free key-bindings and can easily be
extended using the sophisticated S-Lang macro language. Offline reading
is possible by using either slrnpull (shipped with slrn) or a local
newsserver (like leafnode or INN).
Alexis Hildebrandt