In article <Pine.GSO.4.56.0312101115360.7933@vax.hanford.org>, Matt Ackeret <mattack@vax.hanford.org> wrote: >On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Michael Wang wrote: >>1. Pnews is quicker. With trn and ":p", you have to select the group, >>wait for "overview" to complete, then you can post a message. > >What do you mean by select the group? Don't you post when you're already >in a particular group? You never post from outside of trn? Automated postings of FAQs, for instance. Or perhaps automating the posting of something to multiple sources (I could see where someone might want to do something like lynx -dump ../announcements.html | Pnews, with appropriate glue of course). mrc -- Mike Castle dalgoda@ix.netcom.com www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ We are all of us living in the shadow of Manhattan. -- Watchmen fatal ("You are in a maze of twisty compiler features, all different"); -- gcc ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/
