RM> UKA_PPP is for offline use !!!
RM> PINE is for online use ...
Ricsi,
How do you say UKA_PPP is for offline use? UKA_PPP sends (SMTP) and receives
(POP3) email, and sends and receives news messages. That's online! Other
goodies in the UKA_PPP package, such as HTGET and FTP, also work online.
RM> It only loads the HEADERS of the messages.
RM> If you want to read the message, you press enter, and that message is
RM> loaded.
That sounds like IMAP as opposed to POP3. Most Internet users can't use IMAP.
Bluegrass Net supported IMAP for a time, then discontinued because of security
problems.
I suppose, since PINE is open-source, that conceivably one could get the source
for 3.96 and 4.21, and compile 4.21 for DOS. If that were easy, presumably they
would have done it at the University of Washington.
If one knows the newsgroups of interest with DOS-PINE and does not have to
search, then DOS-PINE has no problem with memory? What if the download is
> 400 KB? Is that put in memory or directly downloaded to disk? But then why
can't the full list of newsgroups be downloaded direct to disk, instead of
overloading memory?
Maybe Arachne could use a news module, as well as more orderly file naming for
downloaded email messages?
Thomas Mueller
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