And it came to pass that Topics Man wrote:
>Thanks for the objective advice :-)
>
>Its not the reader thats the problem, its the fact that I'm
>using a slow dial-up link (no alternative) so it would be
>more efficient to FTP a compressed archive rather than read
>message by message.
>
You might want to ask in news://news.software.readers to see if
they have any suggestions. A lot of those folks have set up a
program called HAMSTER. It basically sets up as a news server
on your computer. I don't know if this will address your
problem or not.
--
}:-) Christopher Jahn
{:-( Dionysian Reveler
"I only live about ten percent in this reality." "So where's
your summer cottage?"
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