Jim Thompson wrote:

On Tue, 31 May 2011 19:45:27 -0700, Les Cargill
wrote:


Jamie wrote:

Jim Thompson wrote:


On Tue, 31 May 2011 17:07:21 -0700, "Joel Koltner"
wrote:



"Jim Thompson"
wrote in message ...


I know from nothing about networks. Mainly what I want to do is read
and reply to E-mail; though I might want to run PSpice at some point
in time.

I've occasionally wished that there were a Usenet (NNTP) reader that
would automatically synchronize across multiple computers. AFAIK,
though, no such program exists, unfortunately.

---Joel


Indeed!

...Jim Thompson

Assuming I understand the question !!!!!!!

Yup, can be done., Just a server installed on the main machine that will
respond to the NNTP port and redirect in/out to local and remote
machines from a list of IP addresses.

No modes needed in any client software. Just a server operating on the
machine that has the actual connect to the NNTP..

Jamie




I think there is more to it than that

Might be able to Ggogle for "NNTP proxy". It will not preserve the
state metadata from multiple newsreaders on multiple machines, though.


I suspect one could move the Agent database to your laptop when you
travel, then move it back when you come home.

...Jim Thompson
Well ok, if that is going to be an issue, a simple remote access
terminal application to that main computer works fine for that.. Not
only can you operate your NNTP client remotely, you'd be able to do the
same with other apps as well, remotely! We do that here from home when
we want to get to and operate the PC at work how ever, we are not using
standard off the shelve software for this, even though it isn't anything
special, just something the IT department uses from the days of evil
computing.

Linux works well for this because all the items needed are there and
free, ofcourse.


Jamie