The Subscriptions Menu

  •  Clean Up Icon(s) will align the selected icons to a fixed, invisible grid. You can also clean up icons by dragging them with the option key held down.
  •  New Subscription will create a new subscription in the Subscriptions window.
  •  Open Selected Subscription(s) will open the selected icons in the Subscriptions window by creating a new reading window for each.
  •  Delete Subscription(s) will delete the selected subscription icons in the Subscriptions window. It is undoable.
  •  Create Newsgroup…  presents a window that you can use to create a newsgroup in the local 'dartmouth.alt' hierarchy.
  •  Check for New Newsgroups will ask the news host for any new newsgroups that may have been created since the last time you checked.
 •  Clear New Newsgroups will remove all of the newsgroups from the New Newsgroup subscription but will not delete the subscription. Window layout information will be retained the net time that there are new newsgroups to look at.
  •  Tune Up… brings your subscription file up to date in several ways: It checks for any new newsgroups that may have been missed, it removes newsgroups that are no longer in use, and it compacts the file by eliminating information about articles that have expired.
  •  Import .newsrc file… will convert a Unix™ .newsrc file into a subscription, remembering what you had read. You can move the file from Unix to your Macintosh using Dartmouth's Fetch  or other FTP client programs.
  •  Export .newsrc file… will convert all your subscriptions into one Unix™ .newsrc file (which includes information about what you have read); the file can then be moved to Unix™ using Fetch  or other FTP client programs.