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- From: rick@ricksys.lonestar.org (Richard McCombs KB5SNF)
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
- Subject: Re: Offline Readers
- Message-ID: <930101.022724.6D7.rusnews.w165w@ricksys.lonestar.org>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 93 02:27:24 CST
- References: <iBmPrAeNBh107h@Birdsong.Suvl.CA.US> <921228.020445.1P0.rusnews.w164w@alpha3.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca> <921230.041944.4N8.rusnews.w165w@ricksys.lonestar.org> <921230.145745.6r3.rusnews.w164w@alpha3.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca>
- Organization: The Red Headed League; Lawton, Ok
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- russell@alpha3.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Russell Schulz) writes:
-
- > rick@ricksys.lonestar.org (Richard McCombs) writes:
- >
- >>> uucp+rnews:
- >> How you could get rnews to work with only one directory?
- >
- > just hacking at it - unpack all the news files that WOULDN'T have gone
- > straight into junk into one big directory, probably keeping an index
- > file somewhere. (as long as you don't have to parse that feeds file,
- > doing rnews is easy)
-
- I read junk. (if I get anything there.)
- >
- >>> uucp+rnews:
- >>
- >> I'd say you need to be a medium-grade hacker to get waffle up and
- >> running. I got it to work with little or no help.
- >
- > for the case where the user has:
- > one place feeding them
- > no places they're feeding
- > one (or many, really) phone numbers to call to their feed
- >
- > this wouldn't be a big deal, would it? to set up a custom waffle system,
- > that you could plug and play (answer these twelve questions: type of deal)
-
- Well, if it was plug and play maybe.
- It would have to be congiruable from menus, and make no assumtions about
- the person's knowledge of Usenet etc.
-
- I would probably never use it, I'd loose the flexability.
- For instance right now I receive most of my news from one host and feed
- what I post to another one because it seems to get lost the other way.
-
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