Re: Suggestion: Newsgroup selection

Mikus Grinbergs (mikus@bga.com)
Fri, 31 May 1996 07:24:58 -0500

In article <0PlrxMOlQwXV089yn@io.org>, fdaluet@io.org (Frank D.A. Luet) wrote:
> I would like to suggest a change to the current method of creating
> new newsgroups. Many people can get a file from their ISP that contains
> ALL newsgroups that the news server carries. Lets call this the
> "Possible New Group file" of PNG for short.
>
> It would be nice if the newgroup command allowed you to select from
> a PNG file any of the available groups. Even better would be the ability
> to tag multiple selections from the pick list and "bulk create" them.

A couple of comments:

- You do NOT need to use the newgroup command when you decide to
subscribe to a new newsgroup.

In yarn.doc: "When the import program finds a newsgroup in the
packet that is not already in the news base, it adds the newsgroup"

- The only time I use a newgroup command in Yarn is when I subscribe
to a new mailing list, and am creating a pseudo-newsgroup to receive
MAIL from that mailing list.

- Sounds like you are using Souper to fetch news from your ISP. Your
suggestion saves the bother of typing in a newsgroup name into the
Souper newsrc file. But my ISP lists more than 15000 newsgroups!

It would take me longer to select a name on such a list, than to
manually edit the file that tells Souper which newsgroups to fetch.