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On Wed, 27 Aug 1997 09:47:19 GMT +0000 "Carol Carpenter" said:
> To be fair, if you only have a 4Meg machine then I would have thought
> that running just Arcweb, and a news/email downloader was enough of a
> load whilst online. Surely you wouldn't run newsbase and a ttfn or..
And for those people on a permanent connection? It's just perfectly
natural whilst _reading_ news and mail to also _reply_ to anything
that may be in need of such. There is then the increasingly common
practice of news/email postings recommending URLs that have just the
piece of information that you have been looking for all morning. In
this event hitting the active link is far easier than downloading
all your news, reading through it - pen and paper in hand to note
links of interest - quitting the mail/news side of things (after a
download of outgoing messages if that's how your setup works) and
then starting up the web browser to work your way through the list
of interesting sites, carefully typing in all those esoteric http:
addressess.
Even with 42M memory to play with and the toolbox in ROM old habits
die very hard and I'll always opt for the more resource efficient
solution and that happens to be TTFN. All Richard needs to add to
it for now is (possibly) syntax colouring of messages when he moves
over to ZapRedraw for the article display ;-)
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