From: black.hole.4.spam{at}gmail.com (Don Hills)

In article , "Geo"  wrote:
>
>I really liked tapcis, however when I tried using it over tcp/ip with that
>com port to IP converter thingie I started to really dislike it. I don't
>like un-needed complexity like that. Tends to create unreliability. This
>YARN/SOUP thing sounds sort of like that.

If you just want to play CDs and listen to the radio, you buy a cheap
3-in-1. If you want high fidelity, you buy separate components to suit your
requirements. Each component does one job and does it very well. The
disadvantage is that you have to invest a little time and effort to plug
the components together and set them up.

So you have online and offline components. The offline part provides a
consistent UI. The online part is chosen to match the type of connection
you have. If your connection type changes, you change that component and
your investment in learning the UI is retained - rather like certain word
processing programs that provide optional key macro bindings for their
competitor's products to allow you to switch products without having to
learn new key macros.

YARN is supremely reliable. It's fast, even on my old 486-75 laptop. It
handles big spools and mail folders. It's purely a text handler - it
doesn't format MIME or HTML etc, it allows you to call external programs of
your choice to display such items. This also means it's unaffected by just
about any exploit you can think of. Similarly, editing of outgoing posts
and mail is done using the editor of your choice. I still use it because I
haven't found anything that is better overall, even on Linux or Windows.

But from your original post, it seems that you just want something to read
text posts occasionally. In other words, you want a 3-in-1 stereo. I don't
know of any such program, sorry.

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