Re: Don't waste time on offline newsreaders...

[Gianluca Montecchi <gm518464 silab dsi unimi it>]

On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Benedikt Heinen wrote:

> > > 2) It's not an efficient use of net resources for the same reason
> > > Netscape's cache is when compared to squid---it means each person
> > > using a machine must downloading a copy of gnu.emacs.bugs instead of
> > > using a shared cached copy.  Disks are cheap, but bandwidth rarely is.
> > Why ? 
> [...]
> > You don't take care of the dial-up lines. I agree that we cannot take care
> > only this, we must take care also this. 
> > What I want is a newsreader that it is usable also with a dial-up
> > connection. I don't want to pay a expensive phone bill, so for me (or
> > other) is better the offline reader.
> 
> So? What we could do about this is either wasting time making an offline
> newsreader, or - we invest the time for a better online newsreader. 

So I never will use a on-line reader from home as I never will use a
off-line reader at University. I already write the idea. (I am writing a
more detailed proposal for this now)

> Remember - online is not necessarily online. Instead of using an online
> connection to your ISPs' newsserver to read news, you could also use suck to
> get the news from there and feed that into a local newsserver on your machine.
> That way you could read news "technically online" while being
> "physically offline".
> 
> Where's the problem with that? It should be somewhat easier fixing up scripts
> building a local newsserver and setting up suck to get the news.

I know. But I want to choose what to download, and this method is already
implemented, why not use it ?

Gianluca


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