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To: PMS Witch who wrote (14313)	12/28/2000 10:04:35 AM
From: PMS Witch	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110652

I use IE Back button quite a bit ... When I click the 'v' next to the back button, I get a list of 3/4 dozen recently visited URLs. This stretches about 1/4 the distance down my screen. I'd rather have them reach the bottom and display about forty URLS. Does anyone know how to do this? Cheers, PW.

To: PMS Witch who wrote (14313)	12/28/2000 11:12:02 AM
From: Rick Faurot	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110652

Didn't try lowering parameters on Naviscope. I disabled and uninstalled Naviscope. I realized that the way the software searches, while interesting and (to me at least) amusing is primitive and ineffective generally. If you go post after post through a thread, Naviscope will prefetch the next page for you and that's a good thing. But I never surf that way. I visit peoplemarks and then go to my favorite posters, who post on numerous threads. I did succeed in getting Naviscope to prefetch posts by a bookmarked person who signed his name to every post, thus giving N a keyword to search. But, normally N would be off prefetching other threads, pages etc, even tho I checked the feature which supposedly prevents it from doing this while a request for a specific page is entered. What eventually developed was a situation where N was doing vast amount of downloading which appeared to be completely outside the parameters and this downloading would go on indefinitely. This happened with typical parameters (10,7,5) so I surmised that a glitch had developed. During these prolonged download events, I could not get a selected page to come up over a period of minutes. As for "P.P.S. Now that I have Naviscope displaying my Next pages instantly, I'm hoping to discover a method of seeing the First page with equal speed. Any hints? " This is one of the limitations of the program design. For it to be able to prefetch the "first page" it would have to have the capacity to prefetch and store ALL pages. Obviously impossible. On their website they talk about a Pro version which will be "smart" and learn where you surf and then prefetch those pages. I'd like to test that version when it comes out. So far, no one has addressed the potential security issue of allowing N to act as a server. This opens a back door to your computer in my opinion and when hackers study this, they will have easy access through your firewall via this backdoor. I'm not an expert on this but I think it would be an easy hack. JMHO. best, Rick

To: PMS Witch who wrote (14313)	12/28/2000 2:24:38 PM
From: Fargonaut	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110652

PMS, P.P.S. Now that I have Naviscope displaying my Next pages instantly, I'm hoping to discover a method of seeing the First page with equal speed. Any hints? I don't see a way to do that. They say you can put a URL in as a prefetch keyword, but that method has not been useful for me. It would seem to work if you went to the classified section of a newspaper every day, after reading the front page. You would enter url: http://newspaper/classified.htm or something similar. This won't work for SI because each hotlink (to first unread messages) has a unique number in the address. You can, however, prefetch the 'Subjectmarks' page. Do not use 'Subjectmarks' as a keyword, as it appears on the first version of that page that you will load, thereby getting for you only a copy of what you already have. Use instead "View Subjectmarks' which won't appear until you are reading the first unread post. Naviscope will then prefetch an updated version of the Subjectmarks page (once). After you have seen all the posts for that subject, and hit 'View Subjectmarks' or 'Subjectmarks', it will load instantly. My IE is set to check for new version every visit to the page. Hope this helps, Frank