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- The GroupLens support should work on most Unix systems. It may even
- work for OS/2 or VMS.
-
- For information about GroupLens, see
-
- http://www.cs.umn.edu/Research/GroupLens/trial.html
-
- Edit src/slrnfeat.h to enable support for GroupLens,
-
- The next step is to create a file called .grplens in your home
- directory. This file must contain lines such as:
-
- PSEUDONYM your-pseudonym
- BBBHOST grouplens.cs.umn.edu
- BBBPORT 9000
- comp.os.linux.misc
- .
- .
- rec.food.recipes
- rec.arts.movies.current-films
-
- The last lines in the file consist of newsgroup names. See
- http://www.cs.umn.edu/Research/GroupLens/trial.html for information
- about which groups are supported.
-
- The PSEUDONYM line must contain a registered pseudonym. To register a
- pseudonym, see http://www.cs.umn.edu/Research/GroupLens/trial.html for
- a registering link.
-
- Once you have created your .grplens file with a registered pseudonym,
- you need to add the line
-
- set use_grouplens 1
-
- to your .slrnrc file. After doing that, simply run slrn. When you
- enter a supported newsgroup, slrn will retrieve rating for the
- newsgroup from the GroupLens server and display the ratings in the
- header summary window. The display format is set via the DISPLAYTYPE
- line in your .grplens file. Again, see the GroupLens web page for
- supported DISPLAYTYPE or look at the documentation in the GroupLens
- library directory.
-
- To rate articles that you have read, simply press `0' followed by an
- integer `1' through `5' where `1' is a low rating and `5' is a high
- rating. After leaving the newsgroup, slrn will send your ratings back
- to the GroupLens server. Note: Only those newsgroups that the
- GroupLens server supports which are also listed in your .grplens file
- may be rated.
-
- The header display in a group for which GroupLens ratings have been
- requested, will include a ratings field. The ratings field will
- either consist of one or more `*' characters, or a `?'. The `?' means
- that there is no GroupLens information for the article for which the
- header refers. Articles for which GroupLens information is available
- will contain one or more `*' characters on the header lines to
- indicate a rating of 1 to 5.
-