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...grrrr...
>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.
