Steve wrote:
>
> 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.
And I wasn't using Arachne in the spring of '98 but my current GETMAIL.acf
does exactly that but based on the the time of day. And, of course, without
getting the news. <g> Umm, also without folderization. <G>
Not to say that the Insight user interface couldn't use a little work.
There IS a lot of hand waving required to move from message to message.
- Clarence Verge
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