Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!image.soe.clarkson.edu!news From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) Newsgroups: news.software.nntp Subject: .newsrc across the network Message-ID: Date: 26 Oct 89 19:06:49 GMT Sender: news@sun.soe.clarkson.edu Reply-To: nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu Organization: Clarkson University, Potsdam NY Lines: 19 I'm thinking of creating a NNTP client for the PC. If I were to port pcrrn to KA9Q's TCP/IP package, that would leave the user with no small problem. They would either have to keep transferring their .newsrc to a local scratch floppy and back again, or else they would have to drag a floppy with them wherever they would like to read news. Is there anyone out there who's addressing the problem of running a NNTP client on a machine with no local storage? The obvious solution is to provide for user authentication, and storage and retrieval and possibly manipulation of the .newsrc file. A more (or less :-) drastic solution is to create a new protocol, the NNRP, Net News Reading Protocol. -- --russ (nelson@clutx [.bitnet | .clarkson.edu]) Live up to the light thou hast, and more will be granted thee. A recession now appears more than 2 years away -- John D. Mathon, 4 Oct 1989.