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- Path: scanner.worldgate.com!news
- From: grbear@worldgate.com (Grumpy Bear)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Hi! Speed Modem
- Date: Sun, 07 Jan 1996 19:34:00 GMT
- Organization: WorldGate Internet Access
- Message-ID: <4cp70f$q7f@scanner.worldgate.com>
- References: <232953@cavebearslaire.altcit.eskimo.com> <4c0ltf$83r@news.dx.net> <4cfrbq$10s@mark.ucdavis.edu>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: grbear.worldgate.com
- X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82
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- kkong@vision.ece.ucdavis.edu (Keith Kong) wrote:
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- >Does anybody know if there is a newsreader that does something
- >similar to the following?
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- >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
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- >What programs do people generally use in order to read news
- >without too much hassle and yet keep online time to a minimum?
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- Sounds like your looking for a newsreader called Free Agent (freeware) or
- Agent (commercial), which IMHO is the best offline newsreader available.
- Course, I think it's the only offline newsreader too. *grin*
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- It can be had at http://www.forteinc.com
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- Hope that this helps.
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