Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!tti!dennisg From: dennisg@tti.UUCP (Dennis P. Glatting) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: newsreader w/posting ability WANTED Keywords: NEWS, NEWSREADER, HELP, ADVICE, SEND-ME Message-ID: <1801@tti.UUCP> Date: 8 Jan 91 03:09:20 GMT References: <2355@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> <13525@milton.u.washington.edu> <383@heaven.woodside.ca.us> Reply-To: dennisg@tti.UMD.EDU (My Account) Organization: Threaded Technologies Inc., Cincinnati Ohio Lines: 22 In article <383@heaven.woodside.ca.us> glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid) writes: >Although 'rn' is a bit of a complex beast, there are some good ideas >lurking in it. One of the best is that it contains heuristics for >guessing the next article it thinks you are going to read, and it >retrieves it while you're reading the current article, perhaps getting >several articles ahead. This eliminates a lot of the overhead of the >nntpd daemon or disk latency or NFS glitches or whatever, and 'rn' >always feels pretty zippy. > check xrn. it is a very good reader and reasonably fast. -- Dennis P. Glatting | ...!uunet!tti!dennisg Threaded Technologies Inc. | X, NeXT, and threaded | application developers