Re: How often do you Usenet?

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From: Rudi
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2017 11:03

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On Wed, 01 Feb 2017 22:19:44 -0500, Xocyll <Xoc...@gmx.com> wrote:

>Toby Newman <goo...@asktoby.com> looked up from reading the entrails of
>the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs say:

>>>>Nope. I use Forte Agent for news, and that software always requires a
>>>>manual refresh.
>>>
>>> It's a curious thing about agent;
>>> Usenet has to be manually refreshed, but if you use it for e-mail, that
>>> can be set to check as often as you want automatically.
>>>
>>> Makes you wonder why the usenet reader part never got the same
>>> functionality.
>>
>>I guess polling your own email server frequently is your own business.
>>Polling a shared usenet server might be seen as rude.
>
>Except that when Agent was new and Usenet was popular, almost every ISP
>carried it for their customers, their _paying_ customers, so polling as
>often as you wanted would be in no way rude.

Very important thing to note about Agent is that is was designed in 
the era of dial-up connections. Basic news session would consist of a 
call with a modem to an ISP modem bank, software would download the
messages and then the connection would be dropped, possibly even
by the ISP, if there was no activity in the connection.

You would write your replies and messages while connection is still  
offline, and when done, make another phone call.

Therefore it is very logical that a newer newsreader, including 
Windows OE and Live, and Mozilla Thunderbird would be able to
constantly monitor a newsgroup and update message pool on the run.

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