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Re: LYNX-DEV Can lynx thread usenet posts?
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Paul Gilmartin |
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Re: LYNX-DEV Can lynx thread usenet posts? |
Date: |
Fri, 20 Dec 1996 14:19:45 -0700 (MST) |
In a recent note, Ryan Hung said:
> Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 11:35:29 -0800 (PST)
>
> Incidently, the Vancouver CommunityNet has recently done the same kind of
> switch, from Freeport to Lynx. You can take a look at our interface by
> telnetting to vcn.bc.ca and logging in as 'guest'. We did however decide
> to leave Tin and Pine as the Usenet and E-mail readers, respectively,
> because each are much more powerful applications designed for their
> respective tasks. Lynx is primarily intended for web browsing, with just
> basic newsreading and mail-sending support.
>
I advocate this sort of partition of functions. I wish it were possible
to get Lynx to fork Elm (or Pine) for "mailto:" URL's, and to fork
metamail to handle MIME instead of relying on a built-in MIME handler,
etc.
(Or is it actually possible, and I just overlooked it in the lynx.cfg? :-)
-- gil
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