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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!tezcat!news.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uuneo.neosoft.com!news From: conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: knews ? Date: 8 Jan 1997 16:15:26 GMT Organization: NeoSoft, Inc. Lines: 22 Message-ID: <5b0h6u$mok@uuneo.neosoft.com> References: <5av31j$dde@nntp1.best.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.27.165.164 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8 To: burton@bsampley.vip.best.com (Burton Sampley) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33811 In article <5av31j$dde@nntp1.best.com>, burton@bsampley.vip.best.com (Burton Sampley) writes: > > Is there a way to prevent knews from checking for new news groups with my ISP > every time I first run knews. My ISP 'subscribes' to 20000+ news groups, so it > takes forever to allow me to visit my favorite groups (like this one). > > Any suggestions? What you're really asking, I think, is how to get knews not to read the entire active file when you first connect. Easy. Just set the Knews.readActiveFile resource to False. You probably also want to do the same with Knews.retrieveDescriptions, to avoid downloading the newsgroups file as well. I think that should do it. -- Conrad Sabatier | conrads@neosoft.com | Eschew obfuscation. http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads |