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- Path: news.blkbox.COM!usenet
- From: blake@blkbox.com (Blake Scruggs)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
- Subject: Re: Usenet Readers
- Date: 27 Mar 1996 16:50:40 GMT
- Organization: The Black Box, Houston, Tx (713) 480-2686
- Message-ID: <1464.6660T595T2625@blkbox.com>
- References: <19960325.7CB6788.ED94@mother.com> <1366.6659T601T2642@execpc.com>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: s67.max0.houston.box.net
- X-Newsreader: THOR 2.22 (Amiga;TCP/IP) *UNREGISTERED*
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- >On 25-Mar-96 16:18:42, Tim Carmichael <flewdler@mother.com> wrote:
- >>I have investigated Thor, Tin and mNews as newsreaders for my A2000/3meg,
- >>but all of these want to load the list of conferences into memory.
- >>Eventually, they all complain about 'out of memory' errors. What I would
- >>like is:
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- > I have the same problem, and my ISP carries over 23000 newsgroups.
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- > My not-so-perfect solution is to use my shell account access from a
- > terminal
- >program, go into the newsgroup area, and do a search & list newsgroups which
- >look interesting. Then, back in THOR, I use Browse News and enter the names
- >of any that I may want to look at, and add them to the group list there.
- >Since I cannot realistically look at even a small fraction of the groups,
- >this method works OK.
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- Re: mNews, I used it prior to THOR and still use it from time-to-time.
- Once you do a 'Subscribe' it does bring ALL in, but you can save the
- New Groups you want to regulaly read. But you do have to Read each 1
- while on-line, A better way to say it is even after you have selected/
- saved the list of News Groups you want, you still have to re-subscribe
- each time you log on, but I do find it nice for spot reading a News
- Group.
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- Blake
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