Subj : What do you use for...
To   : David Calafrancesco
From : Peter Knapper
Date : Sun Oct 15 2000 11:54 am

Hi David,

 DC> I use Souper and GIGO to batch download newsgroup messages from multiple 
 DC> newsrc files (2+ dozen last count). I use kill filters 
 DC> and such to clean up what I download. 

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Well it certainly sounds like you have solution that works for you, however I 
think my needs are much more... "casual" that that......;-) I only follow a 
group when I wish to monitor a particular discussion, or looks for a 
[particular subject, hence I do not conside myself a "regular" reader. I rarely 
have more than 4-5 groups that I (try to) follow at once....;-) I was hoping to 
find a good reader, however I am finding that they are surprisingly rare. 

NR/2 seems to have changed little since I first looked at it and still does 
some strange things for me at times (EG: sessions just end and NR/2 vanishes in 
front of my eyes!), and while I find Netscape 4.61 has a generally workable 
Newsreader solution, it consumes heaps of resources for what it does. I am 
considering setting up a small private News Server for just the stuff I want so 
I can work closer with the material I need.


 DC> GIGO then converts the entire bundles into echomail messages that 
 DC> are then tossable by squish et al.

I do similar for a few groups that I put on the BBS, but I use Ngate for those, 
however its the reading of the groups that I feel needs to be sorted (for 
me...).

                                                             
 DC> are the newsreaders that were ported over from UNIX via GCC/EMX.

Thats the other option I was going to look at but I was hoping for something 
that others may have found useful. I find that code from the *nix environment 
frequently lacks in the area of documentation a non-*nix person can 
understand.......;-)

Thanks for the comments........pk.


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