The slrn wishlist page has a few things I would like to see implemented, including:
Server menu Suggested 1997-08-08 by Gabriel Zachmann unscheduled If slrn cannot find a default newsserver or if the command-line option `-h' is given without an argument, slrn could display a menu of available servers (derived from all ``server'' commands in .slrnrc).
Since it was marked as unscheduled, I have written a quick and dirty but worky front-end which does so, and handles passwords too.
Since the API of Curses::Widgets has changed, there are two versions of mslrn:
- mslrn for the old Curses::Widgets API (works in Debian Woody)
- mslrn for the new Curses::Widgets API (works in Debian Sarge)
It uses a curses interface, and temporary configuration files. I experimented with expect but failed (see the source for more details).