Howard Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Ben asked a while back about a high capacity newsreader for DOS.
>I am surprised ben did, does not consider that old freeware workhorse,
>Yarn. The 32 bit version of yarn 092 uses the pmode dos extender, and
>thus has access to all the ram your machine has got. It certainly
>can handle a hugh number of newsgroups and messages. It has all kinds of
>bells and whistles and several dozen add on programs written for it, and
>managing its newsgroups.
>
>The only objection I can anticipate is that yarn does not have a POP and
>SMTP transport protocol built right into the main program. But there are
>lots of those around, regularly used with yarn.
I'm a happy user of that 32bit version of Yarn within the UKA_PPP
package. This package has its own POP3/SMTP/NNTP transport agents. I
don't have any knowledge about others. Where are they?
BTW, Yarn can be used in conjunction with KA9Q ( which has the most
sophisticated killfile system I've ever seen)!
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