OK, so I'm a geek. Today I decided that mozilla's newsreader sucks, so I wrote learned enough about NNTP and my own script with the help of Net::NNTP to download all the articles out of newsgroups, and grab updates whenever it's run. Then I wrote a few web pages which are effectively a newsreader. I can browse groups, view threads, kill a thread, mark a thread read, kill all threads from a person, and more as i hit more things. Not the most elegent UI, but it's nice and fast (assumnig I don't have my disk IO pegged for other reasons), and once I got everything parsing properly I haven't had any problems. This setup should be more efficient while on a slow conneciton too. Today I got 3 boxes of stuff, which was nice. Box one was my lens filters and stuff for my camera. Box two was a neoprene case for my computer - fits nicely. Box three was a 256MB CF card (a spare for if I fill up my 512MB before I can get back to the computer to download them all). Hopefully that'll tide me over for a while.