Re: Help with souper needed
From: sthoenna@efn.org
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1998 10:24:04 -0700
In article <vPp61cHfol/J092yn@one.net.au>,
mraiteri@one.net.au (Michael Raiteri) wrote:
>sthoenna@efn.org (sthoenna@efn.org) wrote:
>>In article <v1s51kdGinJB092yn@ipost.net>,
[snip]
>>To get a list of groups and descriptions from your news server:
>
>Or if you use Vsoup then try a command line of
>
>vsoup -a -m
>
>And vsoup will download all new messages for the newsgroups stated
>in your newsrc file and will append a list of all other available
>newsgroups for your server.
Yes, I know. I was trying to show how to do it even for us lowly uqwk users.
The vsoup thing also only gets the group names and not the descriptions.
Shell account users might also want to look at the newsrc editor program eep,
if it is installed on your system. Don't know if there is any pc port of it.