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

[Gianluca Montecchi <gm518464 silab dsi unimi it>]

On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Guillermo S. Romero / unnamed / Familia Romero wrote:

> Well, let me explain it again, I think we have language problems (English,
> while native are Italian and Spanish). This is the FreeAgent process, and
> IMO it is good for dialup connections:
> 
> 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

Ok, I understand. It is the same method used by skim.

> >And how this method is good if there is a single user that use the own pc
> >at home ? My first idea is to port skim under gtk because it have all the
> >thing needed and work well. The focus is the slow line, not the fast line.
> >I need (and it is better) to have a offline news reader taht work well
> >with the slow lines, if this is true it work well also with the fast line.
> >Skim is designed with this goal in mind. 
> 
> "We are Unix", so we not should think in a mono user way. The way to work is
> to work like Unix, even if the computer is used by one person at home.

Why ? In my opinion we also must think un mono user way. It is stupid to
make a program good that work fine with many users and it watse time and
money if it is used only by one guy.

My proposal is this:
We can make a newsreader that have a common gui, but work in different
modes if is used in a LAN or with a dial-up line. So it is a
off-line reader for who want (or cannot have anything else) and a online
reader for who want (or can) have this.


> Is funny to see how people share accounts, for example in NT, even people
> set NT to not use passwords (arghh!). Should then Linux distros set to this
> behaviour? In a Win95 box you always use the same account for everybody (I
> think that user accounts can be enabled, but not by default).

In a Win95 box, the user account does not exist, the password only decide
the look of the desktop (Icons, colors, link on the desktop and so on)


Gianluca



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