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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.fibr.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-fw-6.sprintlink.net!news.unicomp.net!cbbrowne From: cbbrowne@dantzig.nodomain.nowhere (Christopher B. Browne) Newsgroups: news.software.readers,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: UNIX remote NNTP newsreader suggestions needed Date: 21 Jun 1996 01:24:18 GMT Organization: UniComp Technologies International Corp -- Internet Service Lines: 35 Message-ID: <slrn4sjton.r0.cbbrowne@dantzig.nodomain.nowhere> References: <4qa4vm$dp6@uuneo.neosoft.com> <31CA0B74.5AAC@www.play-hookey.com> Reply-To: cbbrowne@conline.com NNTP-Posting-Host: dal1-4.conline.com X-Newsreader: slrn (0.8.8.2 UNIX) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au news.software.readers:27942 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:21799 In article <31CA0B74.5AAC@www.play-hookey.com>, Ken Bigelow wrote: >Conrad Sabatier wrote: >> >> I'm kinda new at this, having just installed FreeBSD on my Windows 95 >> box, so excuse me if any of the following sounds dumb. :-) >> >> What I'd like is a way to read news from my ISP via NNTP over a 28.8K >> dialup connection *without* having to download the entire list of groups >> every time I start up my newsreader. I'm beginning to suspect this is >> not going to have a simple solution, or am I mistaken? >I'm not sure if this is exactly what you want, but it may be workable. >Netscape includes a news reader section that defaults to loading only those >newsgroups to which you have subscribed (it starts with the basic 3). If you I don't know about your results with Netscape... I find it about as brittle and prone to crash as any MS product. (Happily, under Linux and other UNIX-like OSes when a process does a segmentation violation, it *doesn't* hose the machine.) slrn seems to fit the bill; I *was* using strn (scoring version trn), which was taking a *lot* of time even just to load up individual news groups. slrn looks for *new* newsgroups, but doesn't load the whole list. It appears to be somewhat optimized for use with slow connections; the designers had 14.4K in mind rather than 28.8. I've been pretty happy with slrn. -- Christopher B. Browne, cbbrowne@conline.com, chris_browne@sdt.com Web: http://www.conline.com/~cbbrowne SAP Basis Consultant, UNIX Guy, Linux Guy. "Windows? Ah... The Athena Project from MIT..."