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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in2.uu.net!134.222.90.2!EU.net!Norway.EU.net!nntp.uio.no!news2.interlog.com!news.interlog.com!patrick.interlog.com!patrick From: Patrick McConnell <patrick@patrick.interlog.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Newsreaders Date: 4 Jun 1997 22:16:31 GMT Organization: InterLog Internet Services Lines: 24 Message-ID: <5n4pfv$qf3@news.interlog.com> References: <EB7xzw.L2w@nonexistent.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: patrick.interlog.com X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 unoff BETA 970516; i386 FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42366 tin -n -q or rtin -n -q (for NNTP) -n only loads groups from .newsrc -q prevents tin from checking for new groups Patrick Nathan Dorfman <nathan@senate.org> wrote: > I am using a 28.8 dialup connection to keep my box on the Internet, > as a server. Everytime I start up a newsreader like trn, it wastes > a half hour "Retrieving news active file" then some more time retrieving > new newsgroups. First of all, I don't want any of that crap, I just > want to read the groups in my .newsrc. Second of all, Netscape News, > which I'm forced to use now, does not take a half an hour starting > up, and does not take a half-hour if I use the Show All Newsgroups, > it just takes like 2 minutes to list them all. Why doen't any of the > other newsreaders work this way, and/or what can I do? > -- > ##################### For PGP key, telnet senate.org 5000 > # Nathan Dorfman # or finger nathan@senate.org > # Senate Industries # /'-- www.senate.org | ftp.senate.org -- `\ > ##################### \________________________________________/