Re: Suggestion: Newsgroup selection

Frank D.A. Luet (fdaluet@io.org)
Mon, 03 Jun 1996 23:24:39 -0400

In article <aUurxkW2vjqM090yn@daina.bga.com>, you wrote:
> - 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"

That is true however that requires that I either sit online on my ISP,
search through the names picking the ones I want and then adding them
to .newsrc or I download the files, edit them offline and then upload.
After that I can do the download. The gist of my suggestion is
to try and continue the basic premis of off-line mail/news reading,
"Download the stuff and process it on the local machine where the time
is free".

In article <aUurxkW2vjqM090yn@daina.bga.com>, you wrote:
> - 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!

Nope, I use UQWK, zip and sz all packaged in any one of several
scripts. My ISP has around 15,000 also.

In article <aUurxkW2vjqM090yn@daina.bga.com>, you wrote:
> 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.

To each his own. Your method works if you already know the newsgroup
you want to subscribe to. What happens if you want to get a topic but
don't know what the groups are?

I.E. I'm interested in Linux, I downloaded a listing of all newgroups
carried by my ISP and then did a search on "linux". Each time I
found one I decided whether to include it.

I guess I accidently hid my agenda. I want to take the PNG file and
edit it using the text editor of my choice and then process it in YARN.
Either that or have adequate search facilities within YARN so that I can
search through the PNG file without editting it.

TTFN - Frank