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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com>
Subject: Re: GPL and "free" software
Date: 1999/05/07
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In article <7gt9k8$2pl$1@nef.ens.fr>,
  espel@news.ens.fr (Roger Espel Llima) wrote:
> In article <7gt7qu$rlo$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,

> last time I tried reading a newsgroup on DejaNews, I couldn't find a way
> to make it remember which posts I'd seen, from one time to the next.
>
> (to be fair, it wouldn't be easy for a web-based newsreading service to
> do that; they'd basically have to make you log in and keep your .newsrc-
> equivalent on their server.  that, or give you a giant cookie, probably
> big enough that the browser would throw it away)

Absolutely, you log in to mydejanews, and it keeps track of what groups
you are subscribed to, what messages you have read, and gives you a personal
email account (I am using it to send this message).

I used to use a Unix based newsreader to access news, but I find the
current thread-based access in DN to be greatly superior to anything
else I have seen. So if you are even a little bit unhappy with your
news access, give DN a try (the price is right, $0, as seems to be
the custom for internet stuff :-)

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