Well I am one. Originally I used OS/2 and was very daunted by the
setup procedure to get souper + yarn up and running. Fortunately
for me i found great assistance in this group and they made it
sound simple (which it really was but I was too dumb to know it)
Anyway I now use win95 and I gladly changed over to souper95 and
yarn95. I confess I do like text mode programs and the beauty
of souper95 and yarn is that they handle both email and newsgroups
very easily with all the built-in features one could hope for
(maybe printing could be a bit better).
I download both mail and news daily and regularly run the expire
program. Everything works as it should, it is small, quick, easy
to use.
BTW I am presently testing vsoup95 a win95 port of the os/2 vsoup.
It works very similarly to vsoup and souper but is much quicker
than souper95. Appears to be quite good even though it is only
in its second beta.
>
>I confess I dont. I first grabbed yarn, because my ladyfriend had
>a lot of messages (but not many kbytes) from an activist org. coming
>to my mail account. I use yarn, so she can read and reply to her
>messages online. I sometimes send long mail messages for me to yarn,
>but usually processes my own (low volume) mail online. I also download
>one very high volume, high Kbyte newsgroup to yarn: ba.jobs.offered.
>I send this to a friend looking for a job. However, I filter ba.jobs.offered
>extensively only, before downloading articles. Otherwise, I would be
>downloading 20 Mbytes or so of this stuff each run.
Using score files with souper95 or vsoup95 makes filtering or
newsgroups a breeze. News file sizes shouldn't be a problem
either
>
>To me the salient issue is the Kbyte count: I could see downloading
>many articles regularly but not many Mbytes that must get deposited
>and than deleted from my PC. Further, there are few newsgroups I want
>to follow regularly, systematically - article by article. Mostly,
>I browse both newsgroups and articles within a particular newsgroup.
>It seems impractical to me to download huge amounts of data, just
>to select from them offline on a random basis.
>
>Therefore I am curious about other people's yarn use patterns.
Well i follow 12 newsgroups at the moment and as I said I
download news daily. I find it easy that way. If it's a particular
thread that you are following, the yarn sorts by thread. Also
you could do like i do and that is make regular use of the yarn
function K. If you come cross a thread that is of no interest then
press K and it's gone, read. Run expire -r and it's gone for good.
I'm probably biased but I think souper/vsoup + yarn is the best
alround news/mail combination. It would be nice in your situation
to be able to pick and choose which headers/article to download
but i think it more designed for people like me who download
daily and run expire often.
Cheers
Mike
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