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- Path: vision.ece.ucdavis.edu!kkong
- From: kkong@vision.ece.ucdavis.edu (Keith Kong)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Hi! Speed Modem
- Date: 4 Jan 1996 06:16:26 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Davis
- Message-ID: <4cfrbq$10s@mark.ucdavis.edu>
- References: <232953@cavebearslaire.altcit.eskimo.com> <4c0ltf$83r@news.dx.net>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: vision.cipic.ucdavis.edu
- X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]
-
- Does anybody know if there is a newsreader that does something
- similar to the following?
-
- 1. Loads up all the thread topics in the user's selected newsgroups
- 2. Hangs up the phone
- 3. Allows the user to select the threads he wants to read
- 4. Reconnect to the ISP to download all the selected threads
- 5. Hangs up the phone
-
- What programs do people generally use in order to read news
- without too much hassle and yet keep online time to a minimum?
-
- Keith Kong
-
-
- Bill Barnes (teleback@websoftware.com) wrote:
-
- : If you are reading your text while it is scrolling then you are
- : correct. However, to save time on-line, many folks use programs that
- : download the messages and read them off-line. When you're being
- : charged for time on-line, fast modems will pay for themselves quickly.
-
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