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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!nntp.uio.no!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.alt.net!newspost1.alt.net!pavanas From: pavanas@nomina.ccia.com (pavanas abludo incusus) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Newsreaders Date: 9 Jun 1997 22:55:59 GMT Organization: Aragorn Asteria Lines: 29 Message-ID: <slrn5pp2ft.c15.pavanas@nomina.ccia.com> References: <EB7xzw.L2w@nonexistent.com> Reply-To: pavanas@smalt.net X-Newsreader: slrn (0.9.3.2 UNIX) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42657 On Tue, 3 Jun 1997 21:20:19 GMT, Nathan Dorfman <nathan@senate.org> mused and hath written: >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 -- `\ >##################### \________________________________________/ Try slrn available at <ftp://space.mit.edu/pub/davis> the current version is slrn0.9.4.0.tar.gz and get slang0.99-38.tar.gz. Install the slang first. It is small and quick with many features. -- IHS pavanas We are but dust and shadows Quintas Horatius Flaccus