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- From: kainaw@cris.com (UNREGISTERED VERSION)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: Any good *online* newsreaders?
- Date: 4 Feb 1996 21:16:12 GMT
- Organization: Concentric Internet Services
- Message-ID: <1670.6608T955T1922@cris.com>
- References: <4eujen$1l0@peg.apc.org>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: crc2.cris.com
- X-Newsreader: THOR 2.22 (Amiga;TCP/IP) *UNREGISTERED*
-
- In your message (below) you describe THOR perfectly. If you don't know how to
- do what you are describing with THOR, check the Amiga Internet Guide -
- http://www.cris.com/~Kainaw/tcp/index.shtml - and it will show you how to do
- that. I personally do this all the time. I pick a newsgroup, THOR tells me
- what the first and last post numbers are, I select a range I want to read
- headers on, then I load the headers, then I highlight the articles I want,
- then I load them, then I read them - just as you described.
- -Kainaw
-
- >Don't get me wrong, THOR is great, but I don't want to load ALL articles
- >in my subscribed newsgroups, which may contain hundreds of long
- >articles. I'm looking for a newsreader which:
-
- >* Supports NNTP transfer, and reading while online.
- >* Loads the headers only, when I specify which group I want, and lets me
- > select which articles I want.
- >* Lets me specify how many headers I want (rather than read hundreds),
- > or at least has a "stop" gadget.
- >* Shows me how long an article is before I read it.
- >* Shows threads properly...
-
- >I've used GRn 2.1a, and Tin, but neither seems to do what I want.
- >Using THOR to retrieve headers etc. seems clumsy for what I'm looking
- >for. The Windows world has a great freeware newsreader called
- >NewsXPress, surely the Amiga can compete with this??? If not, is there
- >anyone out there working on such a newsreader?
-
- >Thanks for your suggestions.
-
- >----------------------------------------------------
- > Joe Hutchinson jhh@acslink.net.au |\| /\ |-|
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