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Ross Crawford wrote:
> 2. If you use several different computers (or switch between news &
> browser) it's harder, although you can use the the highlight feature. But
> if you mostly use the same machine, most browsers automatically display
> links you've already visited in a different colour.
Problem one for me... using 3 machines at the moment, LDAP unfortunately
still not working :(
> > - Web browsers generate more traffic. For some perhaps moot, but as I'm
> > always way over my ISP's limit already I try to watch out for waisted
> > bandwidth.
> Well not sure here, as with mail or news, each post requires 2 massages to
> be sent and 1 received. Haven't done the maths...
Right now it does, but with NNTP authentication that could go back to one
small ASCII batch... the overhead of a webboard vs an NNTP system is huge :
images, markup tags etc etc.
> Though I don't have a problem with ISP limit, reducing bandwidth is a Good
> Thing IMO. But that won't convince me to go back to using my newsreader
> for Lugnet posting (I still use it occasioanlly for browsing....).
To each his/her own I guess... I hardly ever used anything but a newsreader,
because it looks cleaner and for me works faster. And it's easier to sync
newsreader style between 2 systems than web-based.
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