On 16 October 2017 at 16:07, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2017-10-16, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Unless you work regularly on multiple PCs, as there's no newsreader I >> know of that maintains your settings (what articles you have read, in >> particular) across multiple installations. > > Ah yes. I solved problem that by writing a wrapper around slrn so > that my .newsrc and .score files reside "in the could". [They're > actually just sitting in my home directory on a Unix server which I > can scp them to/from.
Something like that would be great, but not practical for me to write myself. I'm on Windows machines, and Windows newsreaders from what I recall aren't as hackable as Unix ones (I'm able to write the code, but not if the data isn't accessible...). Also, on at least one of my PCs I'm behind a firewall that blocks access to pretty much all "personal cloud storage" sites, so a DIY solution isn't possible. Something like Chrome's "sync my settings" would be ideal, but I've never found anything like that in a newsreader. > You mean the gmail web UI? I don't even use that e-mail (and I use > gmail for all my e-mail). Yep. Same reason, it's the only globally accessible option. (I could use a mail client on the systems that don't block IMAP, but I'd still need the web UI for the others, and for "borrowed" PCs that I have no software on). The cloud is great, but the app UIs are still a lot worse than a dedicated client app, sadly... Paul -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
