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>Hi, Brian!

> U wrote to Alle  ...

>>: > 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...
>>:
>>: There is! Try Thor 2.2. It's on Aminet.
>>:

>>Will you guys PLEASE knock it off with the damn thor promotions!  Reading
>>the AMIGA newsgroups seems to be like a LONG, drawn-out info-mercial.  Sure,
>>thor

>INFO == Information. Hey, I don`t regard myself as a newbie, but hey... there
>is no OFFLINE - Newsreader out there besides THOR.

>And it doesn`t only depent on you internet provider who may or may not offer
>you unlimited time. Ever thought about a high phonebill when reading online?
>I would *never* read any mail online!

Why Read your Mail online?

>>There is now a newsgroup for Thor, USE IT!  And only tell *newbies* that

>What`s the name of this newsgroup?

It's alt.sys.amiga.thor

I a lot of places though still don't have it, It took a whole before I got it
myself but only after finally requesting it.

>>there is a choice of Thor.  Thor is EXCELLENT for beginners, but for

>And which program do you, as an *advanced* user, use when you read usenet???

>>experienced users, Thor will only be good for those poor souls who don't
>>have a cheap internetting solution, such as unlimited time, available to
>>them.  I do indeed feel sorry for those folks, and hope that cheap
>>internetting soon comes their way.

>Internet access is not the Problem, it`s the phonebill.

I have CHEAP Internet access myself.  $17.50 a month UNLIMITED/FULL Internet
access, with a Local 28.8K Connect sight.  I can be on 24 Hours a day 7 days a
week and it would still only cost me 17.50 a month, and No Cost at all for the
phone call.  The thing it I have 1 phone line only.  Reading/Writing message
can take a long time, why tie up the phone line to do that?  I Grab my
messages, Hang up(People can now call me, or I can call out), take care of all
that, then Log back on, send any replys, and get on the WEB, or FTP, whatever,
and get off.  It's bad enough trying to get a hold of me on my line as it's
bust all the time, Using THOR to get everything helps greatly, that takes up
most of my time.


>Ciao...

>  Heiko Schnapp

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Joseph Waldvogel (joewald@crl.com) wrote:
: >And it doesn`t only depent on you internet provider who may or may not offer
: >you unlimited time. Ever thought about a high phonebill when reading online?
: >I would *never* read any mail online!
: 
: Why Read your Mail online?

Because it's faster? Remeber that "online" != "over a modem link".

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Heiko Schnapp wrote in comp.sys.amiga.networking about "Re: News Reader!!":
HS> 
HS>

[ ... ]

HS> INFO == Information. Hey, I don`t regard myself as a newbie, but
HS> hey... there
HS> is no OFFLINE - Newsreader out there besides THOR.
HS> 

But there is: UMS and IntuiNews.

Regards, Edwin.

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On or around Thu, 11 Apr 96, Edwin Cikan is alledged to have muttered
something along the lines of -

EC> Heiko Schnapp wrote in comp.sys.amiga.networking about "Re: News Reader!!":
EC> 
EC> HS> hey... there is no OFFLINE - Newsreader out there besides THOR.
EC> 
EC> But there is: UMS and IntuiNews.

And AdMan, too...

TTFN,
Keith.

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On Fri, 12 Apr 96, Innovision Concepts Limited typed the following
line(s):

> EC> HS> hey... there is no OFFLINE - Newsreader out there besides THOR.
> EC> But there is: UMS and IntuiNews.
> And AdMan, too...

There sure is. :-) And not forgetting oldie but goldie GRn 2.1.
It still works pretty well for a UUCP setup.

Cya,
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In article <paul.4gxk@serena.iaehv.nl> paul@serena.iaehv.nl (Paul Kolenbrander) writes:
> On Fri, 12 Apr 96, Innovision Concepts Limited typed the following
> line(s):
>
> > EC> HS> hey... there is no OFFLINE - Newsreader out there besides THOR.
> > EC> But there is: UMS and IntuiNews.
> > And AdMan, too...
>
> There sure is. :-) And not forgetting oldie but goldie GRn 2.1.
> It still works pretty well for a UUCP setup.

And GRn 3.1 is even better. :)
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Heiko Schnapp (gecko@independent.mayn.de) wrote:

> And it doesn`t only depent on you internet provider who may or may not offer
> you unlimited time. Ever thought about a high phonebill when reading online? I
> would *never* read any mail online!

True phonebills are a bother. But i keep taps on more than 40 newsgroups, 
are you suggesting i download all of that? It would take ages, not to 
mention gigabytes of local storage.

On 19-Apr-96 15:48:01, Per Jacobsen wrote:

>> And it doesn`t only depent on you internet provider who may or may not
>> offer you unlimited time. Ever thought about a high phonebill when reading
>> online? I would *never* read any mail online!

> True phonebills are a bother. But i keep taps on more than 40 newsgroups, 
> are you suggesting i download all of that? It would take ages, not to 
> mention gigabytes of local storage.

Unless you are primarily referring to binary newsgroups, I find it hard
to understand how you can make a qualified decission on which articles
to bring home without spending more time than if you just download the
lot of them. And if you deleted them immediately after browsing through
them, they would hardly take up gigabytes of disk-space.

Furthermore, nothing prevents you from downloading the articles while
performing other on-line activities.

How long does typically it take you to scan those 40 newsgroups and
download the selected articles?

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In article <4l8931$qfk@news.uni-c.dk>, Per Jacobsen writes:

> Heiko Schnapp (gecko@independent.mayn.de) wrote:
> 
> > And it doesn`t only depent on you internet provider who may or may not offer
> > you unlimited time. Ever thought about a high phonebill when reading online? I
> > would *never* read any mail online!
> 
> True phonebills are a bother. But i keep taps on more than 40 newsgroups, 
> are you suggesting i download all of that? It would take ages, not to 
> mention gigabytes of local storage.

Slight exageration.  I follow 140 groups.  I have 250meg allocated for my
news spool.  It takes 1hour and 20 minutes each day to transfer at 14.4
Most expire times are set at 7 days.

Yes, there is a fair amount of connect time.  But if you do it like I do,
via UUCP, it's not really an issue.

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Henrik Dissing (hendis@aix1.danadata.dk) wrote:
> On 19-Apr-96 15:48:01, Per Jacobsen wrote:


> How long does typically it take you to scan those 40 newsgroups and
> download the selected articles?

I stopped downloading messages when i left fidonet. I read things online 
a unix machine with Tin. Which gives me the ability to look into any of 
the 7000 news groups a few seconds notice, and search 
bodies/titles/headers of messages as well.

I tried thor, but for me the interface is very difficult...not really 
designed to work on 640x256 screen.