>>>Mine still provides shell access, but they aren't real happy about it,
>>>some days. They barely even want to support it, it seems like.
>
>>That's too bad. If you feel strongly about this, it might be time to
>>check out the other ISP competition in your area, eh?
>
>I've been looking. It's not an easy thing to do, especially when you're
>not especially sure you can trust what they say. Or when you ask them
>if they have UQWK, and they say "Huh? What's that?" *sigh*
I see your point. If you ask a potential candidate for your ISP
business about UQWK, and they don't have a clue, then that is a major
warning sign right there.
I don't know anything about the ISP market in your area. But, I do
know that, in some locations, there is not much competition. So, I
guess that the pickings might be slim in other towns or cities. I
consider myself lucky, here in Chicago, because of all the choices for
Internet Service providers that are available in the metropolitan area.
Anyway, I wish you luck in your search :)...
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>>In answer to your question, when Yarn imports the articles, it rejects
>>any duplicates.
>
>Figured as much. Made for a *real* large mail packet when I switched
>over the Souper from UQWK. Something I did notice, though...the newsrc
>file in the Souper directory on my PC looks *just* like the .newsrc file
>in the home directory on my shell account. I wonder if I could upload
>the file from the PC, and pull via UQWK that way, to avoid an overly-
>large packet...on one of those occasions my provider has PPP problems.
I noticed this, too. However, I never tried uploading my Souper95
.newsrc file to my shell account to run the trn/uqwk routine because I
was not sure if the article numbers in the PC .newsrc matched the ones
in the .newsrc file of my shell account. You might want to give a
shot... What the heck? It might work :)... If it does, would you
please let the rest of us on the list know?
>>BTW, if I don't find OLMENU installed on my ISP, would you email me
>>with info regarding how to set it up as a standalone program in the
>>shell? I might want to try using it, to see how it works. Thanks.
>
>I woulda done this, but I was out of town when I got this, and by the
>time I got back into town, you had mailed me to let me know you already
>had it up and running. :)
Yeah, I know :)... Once I become interested in a new (to me) software
program or application, I tend to forge ahead and put a lot of effort
into learning and testing it. I get excited, so, sometimes, I can't
wait to get the process going...
Anyway... Good luck to you in your search for a "real" ISP, and in
your use of souper.
Debra Walker
-- Debra Walker debraw@wwa.com Chicago, IL