Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!bellcore!rutgers!uwvax!speedy!thaler From: thaler@speedy.cs.wisc.edu (Maurice Thaler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Automated news reading software for IBM-PC Message-ID: <6827@spool.cs.wisc.edu> Date: 9 Dec 88 03:31:06 GMT References:<482@mccc.UUCP> Sender: news@spool.cs.wisc.edu Reply-To: thaler@speedy.cs.wisc.edu (Maurice Thaler) Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept Lines: 16 I could be wrong, but I think what this person is looking for is a program that is INTERACTIVE with news. Something like the QUICKMAIL program that has been created for PC_BOARD. Sorry to lower the level of this group to the lowly BBS world. The way QUICKMAIL works is to collect all un-read mail, ARC it, send it to you, then you read it with their mailer, respond to it offline, and then use the QUICKMAIL door to upload your responses later. The idea is more practical with the more limited message base of a PC_BOARD. With NewsNet, the sheer bulk would make this pretty gross. I do have a small (and not very well written) shell script that will download a particular newsgroup to a file, ZOO it, and than send it to me via ZMODEM. It serves nicely for the one or two newsgroups that I want to read offline at a more leisurely pace. Maurice Thaler SYSOP Audio Projects BBS (608) 836-9473 SYSOP Power Board BBS (608) 222-8842