What's TOTALLY COMPELLING about good newsreaders?

[Aahz]

In article <slrnbk3c1i.2nv.bignose-hates-spam at rose.localdomain.fake>,
Ben Finney  <bignose-hates-spam at and-benfinney-does-too.id.au> wrote:
>
>Brandon accesses comp.lang.python via Usenet, not email.  His
>X-Newsreader header shows he is using Outlook Express.  I don't know of
>any newsreaders that can allow you to filter on the person(s) to whom
>the current post is responding -- nor any email clients with the
>facility, for that matter.
>
>The "References" header could theoretically allow you get that
>information, but it would be expensive to do so for every message,
>especially in long-running threads.

Supposedly gnus and slrn do that, though.
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