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- Path: warp.ipacific.net.au!news
- From: mann@ipacific.net.au (Angus Mann)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: Best way to read News??
- Date: 2 Jan 1996 13:31:47 GMT
- Organization: Intercom Pacific Pty Ltd, Australia, +612 281-1111
- Message-ID: <912.6575T1431T2140@ipacific.net.au>
- References: <19951231.786E840.101B7@ragtime.vnet.net>
- Reply-To: mann@ipacific.net.au (Angus Mann)
- NNTP-Posting-Host: shiva-pd3.ipacific.net.au
- Organisation: Booze Brothers' Brewery
- X-Newsreader: THOR 2.22 (Amiga;TCP/IP) *UNREGISTERED*
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- > 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>?
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- >> I like mNews. It's in its infancy, but it is easy to set up and the latest
- >> alpha/beta version is very fast.
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- > Frankly, the best way I know of to read news is to have NNTPxfer run by a
- >CRON driver, downloading your news to local HD every so often, then run
- >GRn 2.1 in LOCAL mode, reading news from your HD.
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- I used to do that, but found that although I have more than enough diskspace
- for all the messages in the groups, it takes far too long to download them all,
- and search through them in the message-mode of a reader. I now use the
- BrowseNews option in ConnectTHOR to list the headers of new messages, and then
- to download the messages I want/am interested in...
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