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From: Patrick McConnell <patrick@patrick.interlog.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Newsreaders
Date: 4 Jun 1997 22:16:31 GMT
Organization: InterLog Internet Services
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NNTP-Posting-Host: patrick.interlog.com
X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 unoff BETA 970516; i386 FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE]
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tin -n -q  or  rtin -n -q (for NNTP)

-n only loads groups from .newsrc
-q prevents tin from checking for new groups

Patrick


Nathan Dorfman <nathan@senate.org> wrote:
> 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?

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