Re: Can usenet be saved?

[Bogus newsgroup alt.comp.software.newsreaders removed.]

problems@gmail a.k.a. Chris Glur a.k.a. crg wrote:
Will web-based and blogs displace Usenet ?

There seem to be 2 contradicting tendencies:
1. move towards always on broad-bandwidth, leading to a
glossy-magazine page-flipping mentality;
2. always accesible, leading to portable devices which need to be more
efficient that the ever bloating WinTel model.

Perhaps Usenet can live on in the 'small device' model.

I personally would have great use for a non-bloated sytem which could:
A: post to a random newsgroup -- without being setup for them all;
B: download ONLY articles identified by author or Subject, but with
the necessary 'linking info' to maintain the thread structure.

I've got A, and google can give me the targetted downloads, but
looses the thread linking info, so that my replies just appear as
new-thread-starters.

The existing but rarely provided RFC facility X<I've forgotten the name>
CAN in fact fetch an article, based on its attribute/s.
For hi-volume groups, I can't afford to d/l hundreds of headers to
possible find my replies. In principle IMO the server should do the
searching. Also this would save net traffic.

Or ??

== TIA.

This was not a problem when you asked it in March [1], and it still
isn't a problem! So stop trolling or *explain what you don't understand*
in the earlier responses.

Bottom line: (As explained,) *Any* decent offline-reader - or
online-reader with a local 'server' (like Hamster, leafnode, etc.) - can
do what you want.

And as asked before, put your name in your From: header!

[1] Threads "Can readers: d/l headers-stack till field found: maxN ?" of
March 30 and 31, <news:1206845184.720393@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> and
<news:1207284508.964578@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>. The second one is really a
response ("Re: "), but doesn't have a References: header, so it's an
orphaned response.
.

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