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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!howland.erols.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!saluki-news.it.siu.edu!slip106.termserv.siu.edu From: jimd@slip106.termserv.siu.edu (Jim Dutton) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Newsreaders Date: Tue, 03 Jun 1997 20:14:47 CST Organization: Southern Illinois University Lines: 16 Sender: NNTP@slip106.termserv.siu.edu Message-ID: <24883c33.u9t27e.b71c1@slip106.termserv.siu.edu> Reply-To: jimd@slip106.termserv.siu.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: slip106.termserv.siu.edu Comment: AmigaNOS v2.9p In-Reply-To: <EB7xzw.L2w@nonexistent.com> (from Nathan Dorfman <nathan@senate.org>) (at Tue, 3 Jun 1997 21:20:19 GMT) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42433 Get KNEWS. It allows you to configure "out" the default action of checking for new newsgroups. I forget whether it was in PORTS or PACKAGES. Hi Nathan, on Jun 3 you 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?