On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Tim May wrote:
First, you will of course find that no one but yourself will check the "yahoogroups" ghetto site. (If you are not familiar with the
Possible, but at least I've got an archived list of cpunx-related material, which I can reference later (with other newssources, this happens rather frequently). So, in case none of you is running a newssink, I'll just go ahead, and make a new one, even if it's just for my private use.
Second, I'm confused. You say you have bad connectivity at work and no connection at home. If you can take Choate's URL pointers and follow them, why can you not go directly to the source (Yahoo, Slashdot, CNET, Wired, etc.)? And how will you access Yahoo groups with poor/zero connectivity?
I'm at work: where I'm supposed to work. Apart from the fact of lacking time to waste, the ssh link to a remote machine tends to sudden lapses into 10 sec latency, making mail writing a chore if not impossible. I hope to have at least a dialup at home by tomorrow, thus removing any good excuses for being lazy.
If you connectivity is so bad, why are you sending _us_ URL pointers?
My web connectivity over loaded ISDN is actually better than my realtime editing ASCII connectivity over ssh over said link.