Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!att!linac!midway!gargoyle!chinet!les From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: continuous reading Message-ID: <1990Dec07.204013.20410@chinet.chi.il.us> Date: 7 Dec 90 20:40:13 GMT References: <1990Dec04.192928.5564@chinet.chi.il.us> Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX Lines: 36 In article stanley@phoenix.com (John Stanley) writes: > >les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes: >> 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. > 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. The difference is that I don't really *want* the news on my machine and it is often convienent to log in directly to the site that does have a feed and read interactively. However, this is not always the case and at times it may be expensive to dial in for a connection at reading (or typing speed). Even if I had my own feed, this would still be the case. Doesn't anyone else travel? Or take their machines apart from time to time? > 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? The duck I want would pretend to be me, telling rn that I want all the unread articles in certain groups (not necessarily all of the ones that I read when I'm on-line directly), but instead of reading I want to use a fast file transfer protocol and some software on my end to help with the interactive part off-line. Les Mikesell les@chinet.chi.il.us