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Re: Dear NNTP users,
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lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Sat, 30 Jul 2005 16:47:11 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote:
> A NNTP client which supported FTX and RSS would be nice.
> But I would certainly want to be able to tell it which
> threads should be downloaded and shown, and which threads
> shouldn't.

I've got the fat pipe.  So I'd like to be able to tell this NNTP client to go
ahead and grab images (maybe I'd set it to pre-fetch all images, maybe only for
certain groups).  That way I don't have to wait for slow websites or bad URLs.

> Jacob (who starts thinking that maybe his summer holiday
>        project ought to be a NNTP client and not a CMS)

Now you're talking! :)

Steve



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  Re: Dear NNTP users,
 
(...) If I want to see the pictures I just kick their URL's off to my image viewer. If I don't, I don't have to wait for them to arrive. (...) So do I. But not af all the MOCs. (...) That requires a rather fat pipe-line. With a 56 kbit/s modem line (...) (21 years ago, 30-Jul-05, to lugnet.admin.general)

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