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   From: ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de   
      
   yeti  wrote or quoted:   
   >ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes:   
   >>If I think my newsreader is acting up today or isn't showing a   
   >>certain feature (like grabbing stuff via Message-ID), I can just   
   >>hop on telnet to the news server and see what's really coming   
   >>from the server or call up the missing feature directly. With a   
   >>binary format, that wouldn’t be as straightforward!   
   >\o/ ____( rlwrap nc newsserver 119 )   
      
     Thanks for the tip! I hadn't heard of "rlwrap" before.   
      
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