Re: Help with souper needed
From: Michael Raiteri (mraiteri@one.net.au)
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 13:15:43 +0100
sthoenna@efn.org (sthoenna@efn.org) wrote:
>In article <v1s51kdGinJB092yn@ipost.net>,
>ssawczyn@ipost.net (Steven M. Sawczyn) wrote:
>[snip]
>>Now, the only question remains, how can I get, or where can I find a
>>master list of news groups?
>
>I posted before that a list (newsgroups and descriptions) is periodically
>posted to news.announce.newgroups. This of course only includes the "big 8"
>(comp.*, humanities.*, misc.*, news.*, rec.*, sci.*, soc.*, talk.*) newsgroups.
>
>Let me know if you would like me to forward you a copy of the latest.
>
>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.
Be warned though as the new newsrc file could be ~600k
>
>telnet news.uni-stuttgart.de 119 > grouplst
>list newsgroups
>quit
>
>only use your news server instead of news.uni-stuttgart.de.
Cheers
Mike
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