You can get a quicker start if you double-click on your subscription file rather than on InterNews itself. If you do that, it will not ask you to find the subscription file. Under System 7 you can put an alias to your subscription file in the Apple Menu Items folder of the System Folder. This will give you access to InterNews from the Apple Menu. You can also put an alias in the Startup Items folder if you want InterNews to open when you start your computer.
If your subscription file appears to be taking longer and longer to open each day, there are a couple of things you can do to help:
- Make sure that you do not have a lot of newsgroups in the New Newsgroups subscription ( like more than 50). See the section discussing New Newsgroups below.
- Arrange your subscriptions so that no one subscription had a lot of newsgroups in it. InterNews gets article information about each newsgroup when a reading window is opened. The more newsgroups in the subscription, the longer it will take to open. If you have a preference set to open a subscription automatically at startup, the process will be that much slower if there are a lot of newsgroups in that subscription.
-Do a Tune Up using the command of that name in the Subscriptions menu. It will tidy up your subscription file to make it more efficient.
