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- From: innuendo@yar.cs.wisc.edu (Jonathan Gapen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: Best way to read News??
- Date: 4 Jan 1996 06:23:26 GMT
- Organization: esCom Amiga Madison Enthusiast's Organisation
- Message-ID: <4cfrou$22es@news.doit.wisc.edu>
- References: <4bnkp4$gvo@grissom.powerup.com.au> <meteor-3012950840590001@10.0.2.15> <McnTx*f52@wolf359.exile.org>
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- X-NewsSoftware: GRn 2.1 Feb 19, 1994
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- In article <McnTx*f52@wolf359.exile.org> Eric@wolf359.exile.org (Eric Edwards) writes:
- >
- > The casual user runs an nntp based news reader to poll for messages while
- > connected to his/her ISP. Very few people set up cron tabs to call up
- > their ISP and deliver news to a local spool. The former is very simple,
- > essentially "canned". The later is not.
- >
- > And just for the record, I have done the custom hack method, several*
- > mutations actually. It works ok if that's all you have but it is always a
- > work in progress and never runs as smoothly as a properly configured UUCP
- > system.
- >
- > *You don't want to *know* how my first newsfeed worked.
-
- Yes, but I've been reading this thread and I do want to know how your
- "NNTP" newsfeed worked, the "custom hack" one. I can't figure out what you're
- talking about, "custom hack" and all.
- Since I'm here in Madison, WI in the U.S.A. and Ameritech charges 6รณ per
- call, period, I read news on-line. Oddly enough, it's the fastest way, even
- though it means longer connect times. It goes something like this: Fire up
- the newsreader, it downloads an overview of the latest news in my subscribed
- groups for a couple of minutes*, then I scan through the headings looking for
- interesting articles, downloading and reading only those. It saves a lot of
- my time, because I don't have to pick out what I'd like to read ahead of time,
- (THOR?), and I don't always know ahead of time. It saves a lot of bandwidth,
- because I don't have to download the entire newsfeed, meaning I don't have to
- wait for it, and downloading the latest from Aminet in the background goes a
- lot faster.
- This uses the well-defined, and widely-used NNTP protocol from a fast NNTP
- server. Quick, clean, efficient. Where's the hack?
-
- *(Well, GRn takes a bit longer, but readers which use the XOVER command go
- quickly enough.)
-
- --
- Jonathan Gapen (innuendo@yar.cs.wisc.edu)
- Bread in, toast out. How does it DO that?
-