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- From: Eric@wolf359.exile.org (Eric Edwards)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: Best way to read News??
- Message-ID: <2o1Ux*H52@wolf359.exile.org>
- Date: Fri, 05 Jan 1996 06:30:26 GMT
- References: <4bnkp4$gvo@grissom.powerup.com.au> <meteor-3012950840590001@10.0.2.15>
- <McnTx*f52@wolf359.exile.org> <4cfrou$22es@news.doit.wisc.edu>
- Organization: Engineers in Exile
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- In article <4cfrou$22es@news.doit.wisc.edu>, Jonathan Gapen writes:
-
- > 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?
-
- Nowhere. But that isn't the synario being discussed. The hack is using
- nntpxfer to transfer news enmass to a local spool and then reading offline
- with a local news reader. My argument is that, if you are going to go
- through all the trouble to maintain a local news spool, you are better off
- installing UUCP. Some people disagree.
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