Another dream feature...

[Volker Herminghaus]

You wrote:
[...]
> > Perhaps the "correct" way to do this is to have OW hand off the
> > processing of ftp: URL's to an application like GatorFTP. This
> > could perhaps be done in a configuration preference...
> 
> A few days ago I expressed the same opinion about handling Usenet
> news inside OW (I said it would be better to handle that to
> Alexandra), but got a response I agree with: since news (as well as
> sophisticated ftp capabilities) are not built into the standard
> NEXTSTEP system, it would be nice to have it available inside OW.
> 
> Besides, there's the matter of taste: I like Alexandra, some don't.
> Some like GatorFTP, I don't.

Hmmm, then again, some will like the way OW does it, some won't.

I personally think handing ftp and news off to whomever is the right way. The newsreader and ftp client writers (Hi!) should be able to make their programs accept URLs of the appropriate format without much work.

BTW I again prefer RadicalNews; it's absolutely the best I've seen so far (and I've seen many).

	Volker