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Article #6095

Re: News Reader!!

#6095
From: Jmonson
Date: Tue, 02 Apr 1996 09:10
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>In article <65641401%agos001@pn.itnet.it>, "Stefano Agostinelli"
><agos001@pn.itnet.it> wrote:
>>Dominic Clifton wrote in comp.sys.amiga.networking about "News Reader!!":
>>> EEk!  I want a decent News Reader on my amiga that can compare to Free
>>> Agent or Netscape 2.0 on my PC!  There must be one somewhere...
>>
>> Sure look at THOR or at UMS/IntuiNews (I'm using the latter).

>I've already looked at thor, which is nice, but just to damn slow and hammers
> the hard disk like crazy when you've got about 1000 messages or more in a


I agree with this point...

Is there not a way to load all or a large number of the message in the ram,
and then access that, rather than hitting the Hard-drive every time you push
"next"????

Jason


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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!chch.planet.co.nz!usenet
From: jmonson@chch.planet.org.nz (Jmonson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
Subject: Re: News Reader!!
Date: 2 Apr 1996 09:10:30 GMT
Organization: PlaNet(NZ) Community Networking (Canterbury, New Zealand)
Message-ID: <1403.6666T614T1532@chch.planet.org.nz>
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