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Hi,

For the last couple of weeks I have been trying out Thor with the
TCP module for my mail and news. This is a nice program and is relatively
easy to set up BUT it still has a long way to go before it comes close
to tin and AmigaElm with InetUtils.

ThorTCP itself needs some serious work done to it in the way it fetches
news.

1) It should fetch the news a newgroup at the time rather than the strange
   way it seems to collect news from apparently random newsgroups (maybe it
   is done by date)

2) It MUST have some decent error recovery when fetching news if it comes
   across a error in the header it simply stops all news collection. But
   it does not record the stage it got to so if you restart news collection
   you start again from scratch and get all the news twice at which point
   it will fail again at the same article ... and so on !

   Why it fails is a complete mystery to me NNTPXfer handles the same article
   without a problem. (it is usually associated the the demon.ip.support.amiga
   newsgroup)

3) Thor itself is affected by the damaged articles and therefore when trying
   to purge old articles it stops and will not go past the damaged article.

4) The program should mark off the articles received as they come in - that 
   way if the connection is broken for whatever reason there will be no great 
   loss.

That will do for a start - keep working at it and I may start using Thor.

Nick