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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
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Reply-To: thaler@speedy.cs.wisc.edu (Maurice Thaler)
Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept
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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