Re: Need help with Requested news.
From: John A. Stanley (jstanley@gate.net)
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 06:35:04 -0600
In article <2uL02cyWiBVA092yn@sawczyn.com>,
steve@sawczyn.com (Steven M. Sawczyn) wrote:
>Personally, I think it would be really fantastic to have a way to
>download usenet headers and mark specific articles for later download,
>but am not sure how this could be accomplished. Perhaps a seperate
>program would have to be written, one which examines the headers and
>gives the user the ability to mark specific articles, this assuming of
>course that Souper can handle such requests. The requested articles
>could then be retrieved and imported to yarn. I'd be curious what
>others on this list think about this and would also be curious to know
>to what degree souper supports the retrieval of previously-marked
>headers; is it a feature which is currently supported, or something
>which is slated to be phased in within a few versions?
At the risk of being lambasted for mentioning a different newsreader,
I'll point out that the Forte Agent offline newsreader does all this.
First it downloads the headers. Then you mark the articles you want and
have it fetch them.
I still much prefer Yarn for discussion newsgroups and especially
listserv traffic (and I don't have much choice as long as I stick with
my gate.net shell account for email), but I recently switched to Agent
for grabbing binaries, and I am continually impressed with all it can
do.
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John A. Stanley jstanley@gate.net