Pointers to news sources and other mailing lists

[Eugene Leitl]

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.