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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!anl433!lea
- From: lea%anl433.uucp@Germany.EU.net (Iain Lea)
- Subject: Re: FAQ maintainer needs some leverage on Dell
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.081450.417@anl433.uucp>
- Sender: @anl433.uucp
- Reply-To: iain%anl433.uucp@Germany.EU.net
- Organization: ANL A433, Siemens AG., Germany.
- X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 Beta PL6
- References: <1992Aug08.053505.1198@chinacat.unicom.com>
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 08:14:50 GMT
- Lines: 42
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- Chip Rosenthal (chip@chinacat.unicom.com) wrote:
- :
- : Several months ago, I imposed a small kill file on sysv386. It was
- : like a breath of fresh air. Just a few small lines increased the
- : usefulness of this group tremendously.
- :
- : Unfortunately, the volume in this group has grown, and I seem to have
- : some trouble keeping up these days. I now wish I had an inverse kill
- : file -- something which would pick out the articles from those folks
- : who I want to read right now, whatever they post, whatever the subject.
-
- I recommend you look at the TIN or NN newsreaders that both support such
- a capability. I am slightly biased towards tin as I am the author :-)
-
- The lastest version is v1.1 PL5 (patchlevel 5) posted to alt.sources
- on 11 Aug 92.
-
- o Based more on Notes and tass than rn type newreaders.
- o Full screen, easy to use with on-line help at all levels.
- o Reads news locally (ie. /usr/spool/news) and/or via NNTP/INN/CD-ROM.
- o Threads on Subject: and/or Archive-name: mail headers.
- o Five different operating levels:
- - Spooldir selection level (CD-ROM only)
- - Group selection level
- - Thread selection level
- - Article selection level
- - Article viewer
- o Same interface to mail, pipe, print and save articles.
- o Auto unpacking of multi-part shar & uuencoded articles.
- o Auto-selection (hot) of interesting articles.
- o Batch mode to mail/save new news when user is on holiday.
- o Reposting of articles from one newsgroup to another.
- o Builtin NNTP mini-inews & clientlib.c
- o NNTP extensions XUSER & XINDEX to allow central index files.
-
- Iain
-
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- NAME Iain Lea
- EMAIL iain%anl433.uucp@Germany.EU.net
- SNAIL Siemens AG, ANL A433SZ, Gruendlacher Str. 248, 8510 Fuerth, Germany.
- PHONE +49-911-3089-407 (work) +49-911-331963 (home) +49-911-3089-290 (FAX)
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