Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!emory!att!linac!midway!gargoyle!chinet!les From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: continuous reading Message-ID: <1990Dec04.192928.5564@chinet.chi.il.us> Date: 4 Dec 90 19:29:28 GMT References: <5596@uafhp.uark.edu> Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX Lines: 30 In article stanley@phoenix.com (John Stanley) writes: >> Now I use readnews, so this may not work for >> other news-readers. I run a shell under emacs and capture everything >> that goes by to a file. > Everything that goes by what? It seems that the original problem was >not just capturing the info that goes by (still don't know what it is >going by), but getting the info in the first place. It helps nothing to >have readnews and to set PAGER to "cat" if you don't have a news feed in >the first place. I think this is in the context of someone who has dial-up access to a machine running news but would prefer to interact with his local machine. Now that modems that operate faster than reading speed are the norm this seems like a real need that should be addressed. In particular, what is needed is something that would gather up your unread news into batches of a reasonable size for transmission and maintain your .newsrc on the fly the same as an interactive session. A corresponding program would accept your batched replies, sort out mail and followups and submit them to the appropriate programs. This differs from a normal newsfeed in that you could alternate between logging in directly and running the automatic program without missing anything. Does anything like this exist? Les Mikesell les@chinet.chi.il.us Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com