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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!165.254.2.53!nonexistent.com!not-for-mail From: Nathan Dorfman <nathan@senate.org> Subject: Newsreaders Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: Email abuse@news2.new-york.net if this posting is inappropriate Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Senate Industries Message-ID: <EB7xzw.L2w@nonexistent.com> X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE i386) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: 865372889 20932 nathan [204.141.125.38] X-Nntp-Posting-Host: senate.org Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 21:20:19 GMT Lines: 16 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42220 I am using a 28.8 dialup connection to keep my box on the Internet, as a server. Everytime I start up a newsreader like trn, it wastes a half hour "Retrieving news active file" then some more time retrieving new newsgroups. First of all, I don't want any of that crap, I just want to read the groups in my .newsrc. Second of all, Netscape News, which I'm forced to use now, does not take a half an hour starting up, and does not take a half-hour if I use the Show All Newsgroups, it just takes like 2 minutes to list them all. Why doen't any of the other newsreaders work this way, and/or what can I do? -- ##################### For PGP key, telnet senate.org 5000 # Nathan Dorfman # or finger nathan@senate.org # Senate Industries # /'-- www.senate.org | ftp.senate.org -- `\ ##################### \________________________________________/