What people want is an offline reader for the website.

Offline readers are useful for portable computers and dial-up access.

Not to be confused with offline reader.

This was similar to "QWK" and similar less automated offline readers that had been used for years by BBSes to save phone line connect time.

It can get e-mail and usenet groups, then log off so users can use the included offline reader, or the user can choose to stay on and look around.

Fred Rappuhn concentrated on the offline reader while George Hatchew concentrated on the doors that would convert the BBS message system to a Blue Wave format.

Navigator included features for offline work, similar to offline readers used with Bulletin board systems, allowing users to connect to the service and exchange new mail and forum content in a largely automated fashion.

Unlike PointCast, which downloads its own content, and the offline reader clones, which download only Web pages, Castanet can download Java applications and applets in addition to Web pages.

Unlike other offline readers such as TapCIS and NavCIS which added proprietary ways of formatting text (colors, fonts, attributes), OzWin always remained "plain text" and never displayed any custom styles.

An offline reader (sometimes called an offline browser or offline navigator) is computer software that downloads e-mail, newsgroup posts or web pages, making them available when the computer is offline: not connected to the Internet.

Systems that work with online readers only (i.e., readers with a permanent link to the back office) are easier to protect than systems that have offline readers as well, for which real-time checks are not possible and blacklists cannot be updated as frequently.

Like other offline readers, QWK was similar in operation to the Fidonet: messages for a particular user are gathered up by the BBS-side QWK software, compressed using an application such as PKZIP, and then transferred to the user.