[arachne] Fw: Re: original format....

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From: John Madden <weez@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> What I do is to keep the next one that _will_ exist in my 'hotlist'

What's this "hotlist?"  Ever heard of RSS? :)

> In this day & age...
> what could be more unorthodox than a full-featured graphical web
> browser that runs 100% in DOS (no windows, no Linux... just DOS).

Hey, nothing wrong with that.  When the svgalib-based one is complete, let me
know -- I run into situations all the time where a quick browser session
would help and there's no X to be found.

> At this link...... http://www.freelists.org/archive/arachne/recent
>
> The posts are not arranged by date... but rather are grouped by thread.

That should be a coincidence, the messages on those pages are displayed
chronologically with the most recent at the top.  It's RSS but in HTML.
Sorta.

> When I turned-on 'vacation mode' four years ago and left it on permanently,
> I figured that it was not only helping me by reducing the in-flux of
> emails to my inbox, but that it was also helping you by reducing the
> needed outgoing email bandwidth.

Indeed.  You should be able to keep up, just bookmark the post you're on and
use the "Next by Date" links.  We'll be adding in more options as we work in
an entirely new/modernized site design in the coming weeks.

John

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