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From: Richard Sargeant <sargeant@arcade.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: FreeNews & toolbox apps
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Date: Fri, 08 Aug 1997 02:20:40 +0100
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On Friday, 1st August 1997, Carol Carpenter wrote:
> Coupled with the ISP's starting not to support
> NEWNEWS means do we really want an acornet with
> FreeNews (which relies on newnews) [..] in it ?
> If we go for the latest freenews or newshound then we
> may as well scrap the idea of a seperate acornet for
> older machines and just go all out with the new stuff.
People with older machines can use KA9Q's news fetcher in !TCPIP.
If their ISP does not support the newnews command, they can still
download news, albeit with the help of a program I wrote last year.
I have not tested to see if !TCPIP does skip the new news phase
when collecting news without any groups configured, but it does
include the facility to fetch a list of requested articles by IDs.
It also includes capability for header only downloads now, but
does not have the filtering system that Newshound has built in.
Is this what you had in mind, Carol? ;) Mind you, there has not
been much news about TCPIP's development status on www.kernow...
--
Richard S, developer of TTFN 0.40 <http://www.arcade.demon.co.uk/ttfn.html>
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