I do...
>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.
>
>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.
>
>
I subscribe to all of the OS/2 and Java groups. I grab newsgroup messages every
2 hours with either vsoup or my own java routine and import the new messages
via the import function of yarn or my own java import routine. I'd say there's
probably 20 or so groups I read from... I love to read! <G> Hmmm... I never
bothered to keep track of incoming bytes, however my news.dat file hovers around
40meg or so in size... Email is another animal, that I know better. I get/send
about 12 to fifteen mails a day and subscribe to 6 different lists.
Ain't the net great! Never far from the office! For me, it is my office<G>
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