Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cucstud!tfd!uupsi!fozzie!stanley From: stanley@phoenix.com (John Stanley) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: continuous reading Message-ID: Date: 5 Dec 90 19:26:26 GMT References: <1990Dec04.192928.5564@chinet.chi.il.us> Organization: One Man Brand Lines: 28 les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes: > 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. Sounds like a lot of work to create something that looks like a regular news feed, works like a news feed, and talks like a news feed. Why not just set up a news feed? The software for that already exists. If the system you log into has a feed, they should be able to feed you with the same software they get fed with. If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and tastes like duck when you cook it, it must be a duck! As long as there are real ducks, why bother synthesizing artificial ones? <> "If winning is not important, then why keep score?" -- Turtle Head <> "Eaten any good books lately?" -- Q <> "Sanity check!" "Sorry, we can't accept it, it's from out of state." - me