On Sat, Jan 03, 1998 at 05:10:51PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > Not normally. Typically, a reader doesn't download all articles in a group, > it just downloads a summary of the articles in the group (so it can display > a list of articles with the subject and the author, say). Then, it downloads > each article as you ask to see it, via NNTP. (Some readers can read directly > off the local news spool as well, bypassing the news server.) > > > Is a news spool part of the reader's set up, or the > > server's ? > > The server's. >
So, I need to be on-line to read ? If I wanted to read off-line, I would need to maintain a local news spool, which is part of the server, therefore I need to be running a local server as well ? TIA, Gerald Crimp -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
