Re: Mc Digest, Vol 67, Issue 17

["Yury V. Zaytsev" <yury shurup com>]

On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 06:15 +0300, chris glur wrote:
> 1. the fact that the 'menu' default has
>   "h       Strip headers from current newsarticle"
> indicates that someone else has already thought of using mc to manage
> NewsArticles.

It's just a rather generic file processing command, e.g. as compress or
decompress a file.

> 2. Apparently the current trend is to use monster-browsers to fetch
>   http, News & even mail. This is part of the regretable dumbing-dowm via Web2,
>   which is an 'application' view of computing.

Lot's of buzz, but it does not answer my question (refer to the previous
email). 

Now if I turn on my telepathy acquisition device, I might guess that you
want a VFS that will do it for you. Fair enough, go ahead and write it,
or find someone who wants to write it for you.

So far this seems to be quite an exotic requirement and no developer is
using dialup anyway.
 
-- 
Sincerely yours,
Yury V. Zaytsev