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Ummm, sorry, but this may actually be unecessary. Here's why. I decided 
that, since I had already upgraded libraries (so as to install Opera) and 
had already installed ncurses from Slack4 (presuming I'd need it for 
naim), I might as well try just installing a regular updated naim tgz, if 
I could find one.

Well, I went about this pretty sloppily. First, I didn't try uninstalling 
the older naim compiled statically against uclibc and that is located at 
my BL3 downloads site--I just left it as is. Then, I tried installing the 
yet older naim I compiled some years ago for BL2 (0.11.5-something). 
Installing the older naim didn't help me get online. Finally, I tracked 
down a tgz of the latest naim from Slack12 (found at 
http://mirror.ttn.net/Mirror/linuxpackages/Slackware-12.0/Console/naim/ ). 
Without trying any uninstallation or deletion of existing naim files, I 
simply pkg'ed that tgz. 

Well, guess what? I am now able to go online with BL3 using naim.

Because of the sloppy way I went about this I cannot say for certain why 
it finally worked for me. For now, I'm going to assume that, with the 
addition of ncurses from Slack4 and the library upgrade needed to install 
and run Opera, installation of the latest version of naim found using the 
tgz found at the link above will succeed. By following those steps, one 
should be able to get naim installed and running under BL3.

If I am able to do further testing with a "virgin" BL3 install to confirm 
whether those steps are the correct ones for getting a working version of 
naim on BL3, I'll report back to the list.

James