Jeremy Blosser wrote: > SLRN. Much of Mutt's user interface was based on SLRN originally. > <http://slrn.sourceforge.net/>
This is not exactly true. The interface for Mutt was most influenced by MUSH (Mail User's SHell) and ELM. I didn't start using SLRN until quite some time after I started Mutt (was using trn at the time). The note on the web page says that <at present it most closely resembles slrn>. That's why it's not a surprise that lots of Mutt users use SLRN to read news.
