Re: can I run yarn over PPP?

Richard Steiner (rsteiner@skypoint.com)
Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:38:30 -0500 (CDT)

On Thu, 12 Sep 1996, Steven M. Sawczyn wrote:

> Hi, I know it wasn't written for this, but is it possible to run over a live
> PPP session? In this way, mail could be sent out as soon as it was written
> and new mail/articles would automatically come in. Again, I know this
> defeats the purpose of an offline reader, but am still wondering if it is
> possible.

Yarn itself won't do that, no. But you can set something up like I have:
I call Yarn with a batch file (in my case a 4OS2-enhanced CMD file), and
it asks me if I want to fetch news and mail via Souper up front before it
runs Yarn, and asks me if I want to send any replies I may have created
right after exit Yarn.

If I want to refresh my newsbase at that point, I simply run the CMD file
again. Not "elegant", but it's simple and reliable.

Messages are still sent in batches that way, not real-time, but I use that
to some advantage because I review everything in the MAIL and NEWS folders
before I exit to make sure I *really* want to send the responses out (and
that there aren't any blatant errors in them).

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