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- From: jhh@acslink.net.au (Joe Hutchinson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: Any good *online* newsreaders?
- Date: Wed, 07 Feb 96 09:04:20 GMT
- Organization: Pegasus Networks
- Sender: jhh@peg.apc.org
- Message-ID: <4f7g3u$98g@peg.apc.org>
- References: <4eujen$1l0@peg.apc.org> <mbs.485l@adastra.cvl.va.us>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: t51.dialup.peg.apc.org
- X-Newsreader: News Xpress Version 1.0 Beta #4
-
- In article <mbs.485l@adastra.cvl.va.us>,
- mbs@adastra.cvl.va.us (Michael B. Smith) wrote:
- >> * Shows me how long an article is before I read it.
- >> * Shows threads properly...
- >
- >GRn does all of those, except next to last (and yes, it's reference
- >threading only works with locally stored news). I'm not aware of any
- >mechanism that's part of NNTP to find the "size" of the article prior
- >to it's transfer.
-
- How about the "Lines:" line when you get the headers?
-
- Thor seems to show the number of bytes when it reads the headers, I
- don't know how it does that!
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