Re: Newsreader (Skim), Balsa and LZW (Re: Mix of Ideas ...)

[crn ozemail com au]

Hi,

Guillermo S. Romero / unnamed / Familia Romero wrote:
> 
> You start with empty database. Then you select load all groups, only the
> list of names: comp.os.linux, comp.graphics.rendering.raytracing and so on.
> After that you choose some newsgroups you want headers for. Maybe just a
> sample of headers (50 headers, not all) to know what is the theme of the
> group, or all the header avalaible for that group.
> When you have headers, you can choose to download message bodies.
> 
> At any given time you can choose to refresh the groups list or the header
> list of any group. Of course you can program things, like "get all new
> headers for suscribed groups" or only "selected groups" (the ones choose
> with mouse).
> 

Why not wait for the netscape source to be released? This is exactly how
Communicator's newsreader works.

Cheers,
crn