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"G" == GarrettZilla  <gnievin@osf1.gmu.edu> writes:

G> BTW - what kind of news/mail software are SLIP users using?  Netscape works
G> great, and things like ftp, but tin -r stinks compared to just dialing in
G> to the shell account with minicom.

When I ran a Linux box on a 24/7 SLIP connection through Virginia Tech a
couple of years ago, I found that 'nn' was great for that sort of rig.

I had an hourly cron job that connected to the NNTP server and updated
the subject databases for the groups that I "carried" onto my local
disk.  This allowed me to browse news quickly on my local system; only
article retrievals themselves (i.e. those I wanted to read, not skip)
needed to transfer data over the SLIP link during interactive news
reading.

The downsides to this are that it's really only effective if your host
is up a good bit of the time, it involves extra administrative work, and
it takes some local disk space to keep the database on.  (I won't
comment on 'nn' as a news-reader--that's a personal-preference sort of
thing.  I found it adequate for my needs, though I prefer GNUS.)

--Up.

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