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- From: fheitka@ibm.net (Fred Heitkamp)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: Best way to read News??
- Date: 1 Jan 1996 14:27:54 GMT
- Organization: Home Site
- Message-ID: <4c8r1a$1vh6@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net>
- References: <4bnkp4$gvo@grissom.powerup.com.au> <1917.6572T545T2727@icenet.no>
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- NNTP-Posting-Host: slip37-208-74.ibm.net
- X-Newsreader: TIN [AMIGA 1.3 950726BETA PL0]
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- Petter Nilsen (pettern@icenet.no) wrote:
- :
- : In article <4bnkp4$gvo@grissom.powerup.com.au>, swatson@powerup.com.au (SCOTT
- : WATSON) wrote:
- :
- : >What's the best way to read news remotely from a NNTP server <online>? I
- : >am currently using tin, but it is dead slow. I have edited my .newsrc so
- : >that it contains only my subscribed newsgroups (47 of 'em out of 14400 or
- : >so) and I use the -r -n arguments, but it still takes for ever to get
- : >into the groups! I used the "tin -c" option to create index files in the
- : >$home/.tin/.news directory, but the directory is empty. Any ideas?
- :
- : If you insist on reading and writing messages online, the Tin and GRn are two
- : choices, although the current 2.1 version of GRn starts to show signs of old
- : age now. There is a commercial version out, but be prepared to put $350 into
- : that one. Pine will also do news, but I'm not sure how good it will
- : handle it with your setup. However, there are other possibilities if you want
- : to use an offline or semi-online news (and mail if you like) reader. THOR 2.22
- : can be used to read and write messages offline and offers more features than
- : any other newsreader on the Amiga. The semi-online part I mentioned is the
- : newsbrowser that's included with the TCP part of THOR that allows you to
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- Is Thor threaded?
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- Fred Heitkamp
- fheitka@ibm.net
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