Beej's Bit Bucket
a day ago
- The author used trn for reading Usenet because of its unique thread display, which showed child articles to the right and siblings below, forming a sparse grid.
- They switched to Thunderbird for Usenet news integration, despite disliking the tree-style thread view, noting it works well and caches articles locally.
- Format=flowed in Content-Type headers allows newsreaders to rewrap text; Thunderbird has config options to control outgoing and incoming flowed message support.
- The author found format=flowed useful but turned off display support because the ultra-wide output on a maximized window was unappealing.