A subscription with many newsgroups takes longer to open than a subscription with fewer newsgroups. This is because InterNews gets information about each newsgroup from the news server when a window is opened. Use subscriptions to divide your newsgroups up into smaller groups that make sense to you rather than putting them all into one subscription.
If a newsgroup has many unread articles it will take longer to show the topics when you open it. If you want to just see a few articles at a time, hold the option key down when you open a newsgroup. InterNews will respond by getting just 50 articles from the news server. Mark those read and select again with the option key down to see the next 50.
While reading one subscription, you can open another subscription using the Windows menu. You don't have to click all the way back to the subscription file window.
If an article looks unintelligible, it may be encoded. If it is a program, it might be encoded using "binhex". If it is an image, it may be encoded using "uuencode". If it is a joke, it might be encoded using "Rot13". Check the title or opening lines for clue. The first two cases cannot be decoded within InterNews. You will have to save the article as text and run the resulting file through a decoding program. Rot13 can be decoded using the Convert Article (Rot13) command in the Reading menu.
Click on the popup rectangle at the top of an article to see its full header. A window appears while you hold the mouse down that will tell you, among other things, when the article was posted.
