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From: wjs@milton.u.washington.edu (William Jon Shipley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: newsreader w/posting ability WANTED
Keywords: NEWS, NEWSREADER, HELP, ADVICE, SEND-ME
Message-ID: <13525@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 28 Dec 90 19:15:07 GMT
References: <2355@casbah.acns.nwu.edu>
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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Jacob Mazo writes:
>I would like to be able to read news from a remote machine (I work on a NeXT,
>the news server is a large SunOS machine).  I currently use a newsreader for
>the NeXT, but IT DOES NOT POST!!!!!!!!!!!!

Man, who would write a screwed up newsreader like that?  Yeesh.

>That, together with the fact that it is so slow, makes me wish that someone
>out there sent me a better one (or an update of my current one!).

News is slow because nntpd, the process supplying the news articles, is slow.
Switching News so it would read articles directly from disk would help a lot.

Simson Garfinkle is working on a faster and better newsreader, with the ability
to post.  Last I knew he was trying to get MIT's permission to give it away,
since MIT media lab apparently has a cute policy of owning everything you write
there.

-william shipley