[ILUG] Faster news reading

Paul J Collins sneakums at zork.net
Tue Mar 27 08:46:48 IST 2001


>>>>> "LT" == Leo Talbot <leo at maths.tcd.ie> writes:

    LT> So, how does one get decent spped on a modem. My current setup
    LT> is with IOL (Nolimits), using tin on my home box. Is there
    LT> some way of caching the news articles, so I only have to
    LT> download thenew ones, or will I have to install a news server
    LT> on my own box to achieve this.

Gnus has an excellent offline mode (the Gnus Agent), but if you don't
already use Gnus, it's probably not worth learning it just for that
feature.

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