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- From: jsburger@xmission.com (John S. Burger)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: Best way to read News??
- Date: 4 Jan 1996 04:31:29 GMT
- Organization: XMission Internet (801 539 0900)
- Message-ID: <1978.6576T1254T2290@xmission.com>
- References: <19951231.786E840.101B7@ragtime.vnet.net>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: slc165.xmission.com
- X-Newsreader: THOR 2.22 (Amiga;TCP/IP)
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- On or about 31-Dec-95 22:40:47 John Kelly typed the following words about "Re:
- Best way to read News??". My reply is thus...
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- JK> meteor@shell.portal.com (Fred Hamilton) writes:
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- >>> What's the best way to read news remotely from a NNTP server <online>?
- JK>
- >> I like mNews. It's in its infancy, but it is easy to set up and the la
- >> alpha/beta version is very fast.
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- JK> Frankly, the best way I know of to read news is to have NNTPxfer run by
- a
- JK> CRON driver, downloading your news to local HD every so often, then run
- JK> GRn 2.1 in LOCAL mode, reading news from your HD.
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- JK> Use NewPostNewsSpool to reply offline, and spool up your replies, or
- repl
- JK> online, it doesn't matter which.
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- JK> Blab blab blab on IRC while the CRON app tells NNTPxfer to grab all the
- n
- JK> articles, then at your leisure start GRn .. read at a LIGHTNING fast pace
- JK> from your local HD and either send out your replies HOT or spool them if
- JK> are offline, and send them all at once next time you login.
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- JK> As a matter of fact, I'm spooling these replies now; I'll prolly send
- the
- JK> "sendnews" command in the morning after I recover from the New Year's Eve
- JK> party I'm going to hit this evening.
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- Yup, I did it exactly the same way for a long time except I used TIN instead
- of GRn.
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- Then I discovered THOR. Havn't looked back since.
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