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From: dennison@telepath.com
Subject: Re: GPL and "free" software
Date: 1999/05/07
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In article <7gur7s$75n$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
  Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com> wrote:
> 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 :-)

To be fair it still does have some kinks. It seems to randomly switch me from
threaded viewing to message-based viewing. Read messages reappear as unread
sometimes. It stops updating for hours. The latest trend is to tell me
"Access Denied" on messages. But the service interruptions you will get with
any news server, and it has a nice set of features that are not all available
in one other reader that I have used. (Cancelling messages, surfing to URL's,
searching Usenet history back to 1995, etc).

The best part (for me) is that it works from sites where the firewall has
every protocol other than SMTP and HTTP disabled.

--
T.E.D.

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