At 1:22 PM -0800 on 1/13/00, Alain Farmer wrote:
Anthony: No. NNTP has a major advantage:
It can be browsed online.
Alain: I don't know about you, Anthony, but I browse
my E-mail online (eg. my free Yahoo mail account).
Don't get me started about webmail. I have never met a Mac web browser a
mere 100th as fast as Eudora or MTNW. Eudora runs fine on an '030 (not sure
about MTNW). Find me a webmail that does!
Find me a webmail that can also handle my 300 messages daily and give me
Eudora's or MTNW's filtering.
If a mailing list gets 1000 messages,
I have one choice: download.
Alain: Well .. this is not entirely accurate. You
could do some (dreaded) mail-filtering.
Yes, I can. I do. I have 5 pages of them! But they are all run _after_
downloading. Filterning on news is done _before_ downloading the entire
message.
On 10-BaseT, you probably don't notice it, Alain; but on a 33.6 modem, I
certainly do.
Anthony: If a newsgroup gets 1000 messages,
I can ignore them.
Alain: I haven't used news much but what I do recall
is that, upon subscribing to any newsgroup, one is
inundated with hundreds of messages in one humungous
download.
Yes, that is correct. In our case, it'd be the entire archive of the FC
list. But you can set a maximum number to download, and then view none but
the newest 100 (or whatever you pick -- I take the newest 5000)
Anthony: Hmmm... I do both.
Sometimes I even read news more often.
Alain: What news feeds/groups are you suscribed to,
Anthony?
I read local.spamcop (on news.spamcop.net), erols.* (local), comp.lang.c++,
comp.std.c++, etc. Also, some binary groups such as
alt.binaries.pictures.fractal, alt.binaries.pictures.astro, and
alt.binaries.pictures.scenic (though I'm reading thosem roe on NailNews
recently). When I have more time, I read comp.sys.mac.* and gnu.* too.
Anything you would like to pass on to this
group? What news-client software are you using?
I'm using MTNW (Multi-threaded newswatcher, often called MT Newswatcher).
[Note: We won't be running a full newsfeed,
or even a feed at all. Unless maybe we wanted
csm.hypercard]
Alain: How about this pie-in-the-sky idea: We
eventually do and/or participate-in a newsfeed, but
not the mainstream news of course. Just an interesting
grouping (community) of related open source groups,
say.
That is a great idea -- set up an OpenSource community newsfeed.
Where is
the interpreter at?
NuParser. I have not yet finished the parser. Too much schoolwork recently.
Science fair project, calc (as always), a few essays, a book...g...
What is there left to do? If new
programmers volunteer to help you, then what will you
delegate to them?
All kinds of support routines, such as "ask", "answer", etc.
Same goes for the Block-File-Format
too.
I thaught XBF was done(?). Uli will have to answer that.
I should get this cable before this week ends.
Hence, we should be up and running (IP) by this friday.
Hmmm... which ISP is this? Y2K problems, having problems getting cables
out... remind me to avoid them :)
I'd be interested in knowing if that cable actually gets there today.
