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4 total messages Started by Stephen Crocker Tue, 22 Sep 1998 00:00

#87

Author: Stephen Crocker
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 00:00

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I remember hearing at one time that a program was being produced called
NBRemote which acted as an online newsreader, allowing access to
newsgroups without downloading the articles to read offline.  Could
someone please tell me if this actually exists and, if so, where to get
a copy?

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Re: NBRemote

#88

Author: Tony Pay
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 00:00

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In article <83e8b28948%crok@crok.demon.co.uk>,
          crok@crok.demon.co.uk (Stephen Crocker) wrote:

> I remember hearing at one time that a program was being produced
> called NBRemote which acted as an online newsreader, allowing access
> to newsgroups without downloading the articles to read offline.  Could
> someone please tell me if this actually exists and, if so, where to
> get a copy?

Is this different from using www.dejanews.com browse groups facility in
your web browser?  If you do this, you don't have to download, and you
can have all the threading information you want.

But perhaps I'm misunderstanding your needs.

Tony
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Re: NBRemote

#89

Author: iain truskett - koschei
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 00:00

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In article <19980922.223021.28@stsm.demon.co.uk>, Tony Pay
<URL:mailto:Tony@stsm.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> In article <83e8b28948%crok@crok.demon.co.uk>,
>           crok@crok.demon.co.uk (Stephen Crocker) wrote:
> 
> > I remember hearing at one time that a program was being produced
> > called NBRemote which acted as an online newsreader, allowing access
> > to newsgroups without downloading the articles to read offline.  Could
> > someone please tell me if this actually exists and, if so, where to
> > get a copy?
> 
> Is this different from using www.dejanews.com browse groups facility in
> your web browser?  If you do this, you don't have to download, and you
> can have all the threading information you want.

It's like what I'm doing at the moment. I'm connected, using Marcel, to
my news server directly via NNTP. Articles only exist on my machine
whilst I am reading them and consequently don't consume vast chunks of
disc space.

It's really rather quite nice to get used to, but is probably not much
use to anyone who has to pay for dial in. Since I have a direct network
connection I have no such troubles (I live on campus at my uni).

Advantages:
  + You use a real news reader rather than the dejanews one.
  + You use a local news server which should be fast rather than
    having to wait ages for dejanews to respond to each request.
  + Probably stretching here, but less memory is used, both primary
    and secondary.

Disadvantages:
  - Have to be connected to the net.
    Not always a disadvantage.
  - umm..


RemoteNB is reputedly available from tom@compton.demon.co.uk.


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Re: NBRemote

#90

Author: Stephen Crocker
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 00:00

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Before being shot for writing message <19980922.223021.28@stsm.demon.co.uk>
          Tony@stsm.demon.co.uk (Tony Pay) wrote:

> In article <83e8b28948%crok@crok.demon.co.uk>,
>           crok@crok.demon.co.uk (Stephen Crocker) wrote:
> 
> > I remember hearing at one time that a program was being produced
> > called NBRemote which acted as an online newsreader, allowing access
> > to newsgroups without downloading the articles to read offline.  Could
> > someone please tell me if this actually exists and, if so, where to
> > get a copy?
> 
> Is this different from using www.dejanews.com browse groups facility in
> your web browser?  If you do this, you don't have to download, and you
> can have all the threading information you want.

Well, that's not much use on my LAN...

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