Mike Millen wrote:

> Arachne needs all that tedious clicking of keys and mouse buttons.
> 
> When I get up each morning I flick the power switch of my PC on my
> way through to the kitchen for the first caffeine infusion.
> 
> By the time I've made my coffee and returned to the computer all
> my email and NG posts are downloaded and sorted into folders and
> the screen-saver is making gentle patterns... a nudge of the mouse
> and I'm reading my emails from my good friend Ms Best in the Arachne
> List.
> 
> Can Glenn make Arachne do that?

  When I was running DOS, that's exactly the way I used Arachne
(except for NG's).  Turn on the power, get coffee, read mail; all 
without ever touching a thing.  That was spring of '98 when I was 
still booting to DOS everyday.

 - Steve (who doesn't even *have* a DOS partition at the moment)

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