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From: Nikki Locke
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 00:00

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It is not that hard to write a news collector. I would recommend Java 
as the ideal programming language if you wanted to write one from 
scratch.

Alternatively, I believe there are some shareware ActiveX controls 
which wrap up socket protocols like NNTP in an easy-to-use wrapper.

Writing a news reader is a big task, even in the best Rapid 
Application Development system.

Aside from the knowledge you would gain by writing a news collector, 
I can think of no useful benefit, when there are excellent mail and 
news readers available for Windows, including Agent and Virtual 
Access.

[I must declare an interest - I do some contracting work on Virtual 
Access.]

-- 
Nikki Locke, Trumphurst Ltd.      PC & Unix consultancy & programming
nikki@trmphrst.demon.co.uk            http://www.trumphurst.com/

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