Was DIP4: Properties

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Steve Teale wrote:
> Was DIP4: Properties.
> 
> Is there any way of coaxing web-news to show you the beginning of a thread?
> 
> Internet time is expensive and slow where I am, so searching back over many days is a put-off.
> 
> I think this is quite important, as readers in the less privileged countries might want to get an edge by learning about the most advanced technology. I put D in that class!

You may want to use NNTP access instead of web-news. Do you use 
Thunderbird? If so:

* Create a "news account" and have the server point to 
news.digitalmars.com. Set your name, email etc. as needed. Finish the 
dialog.

* Then select the newly created account in the left-hand side tree view 
and click "Manage subscriptions". Subscribe to digitalmars.d etc.

* When you'll first connect you'll be asked "Download 500 headers or all 
headers". Don't download all headers because there's very many of them. 
Download 500 or less and then right click on the group and "Mark as read".

* After you connected once, select the digitalmars.d group and 
right-click and select "Properties" then the "Offline" tab. Select 
"Select this group for offline use", then Ok.

* From then on, when you want to slurp all new messages efficiently, 
just connect the modem, go in the main menu at File/Offline/Work 
Offline, wait for the status bar to indicate you downloaded everything 
and went offline, and disconnect the modem. You can then compose 
messages etc. while staying offline. When you connect the modem again, 
go File/Offline and deselect "Work Offline". If you wrote messages they 
will be sent at that time.


Andrei