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From: Tom-Remi Flygel <tom-rf@online.no>
Subject: Re: Offline Readers
Date: 1997/02/09
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(don't remember who said this)-----------------------------------
Bernd Wolff wrote in alt.ascii-art on 07-Feb-97:                |
>zum Thema "Re: Offline Readers":                               |
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>p> >  TF>> newsgroups!! The most common are offline readers    |
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>p> This is utter nonsense.  I use Netscape for reading the newsgroups.
>p> I have an unlimited account so there is no point in downloading a rash
>p> of messages to read offline when I can pick and choose while online.

Yes, but it also costs money *being* online! Not everyone have access to
a PC at school on the evenings.. And using an offline reader saves me
money, and I don't have a great urge to start using a browser while reading
newsgroups only because some people post HTML-code in their messages (very few
actually does that).I also call lots of BBS's, and use the same reader for
those messys..so p-lease..

>Ehm..just because you are using Netscape does not mean that the statement
>about offline readers is nonsense. I'd actually agree with that one,
>because usenet readers who do not use their office/student/whatever
>accounts have to pay for their online time, so offline reading is a
>much cheaper alternative. I don't want to know what I'd have to pay per
>month if I would read all this stuff online... ;-)

Exactly! I am not willing to sift through 200+ messages in my web browser,
spending lots of money while sitting online reading them.. Better to read
them after logoff..

>p> I think you protest "because you use an offline reader" and so have to
>p> download all the garbage to read a few good messages.
I protest because it suxx to look at the HTML-code in normal ascii-modus..
You see clean HTML-garbage..And of course, the message gets big, takes
longer time to download..

>How do you distinguish between good and bad stuff without reading it?
>A new Netscape feature (red=bad, green=good) ? ;-)
Maybe Netscape has certain built-in "bad" words and "good" words and
reacts to them while retrieving the news..=;-D

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this is a little off the topic of ascii-art, but what the heck? :)