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From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.misc
Subject: Re: Unix too slow for a Web server?
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 13:59:15 +0000
Organization: Erol's Internet Services
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Remi Guyomarch wrote:
> 
> In article <324E26CD.7785@www.play-hookey.com>,
>         Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> writes:
> [...]
> > Incidentally, I an indeed using Netscape as my newsreader. Not because I
> > think it's the best (I know better), but because 1) I have it handy and
> > 2) if someone points to a URL I can just click on it and go there
> > without firing up another program. It's plenty good enough for my needs,
> > and it's convenient.
> 
> Knews let's you click on any URL and launch Netscape (if it's not
> already done) with this url. It's also fully threaded, display inline
> MIME images, support kill/hot files, etc ...
> 
> http://www.nada.kth.se/~su95-kjo/knews.html
> 

Which still means two applications running where one will do the job.
-- 
Ken

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