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Of these files, the only one you should need to edit 'by hand' is
the GlobalRule file.
The files in !NewsHound.Config have the following purpose:
i) Config
This is the global configuration file, and contains the nickname
(the 3 letters preceding 'Group' from genGroup) of the default newsserver.
It also includes the time that message id's are held in the Id
History. This is to stop duplicate messages been downloaded -
a value around 14 days is normally okay, although slightly longer is
better. The number of times to retry, and the delay inbetween them, should
the server be busy, is also specified in here.
This file can be editted via the 'Configure...' menu option.
ii) xxxGroup
This is the file that contains all the data about the 'xxx' newserver,
like its hostname name, and all the newsgroups that are fetched from
it. Normally, you don't need to manually edit this - it's all done from
newsbase.
If you have access to more than one newsserver, you can create more
of these files, and can select the news servers from the
'Start Fetch' menu in newshound.
iii) GlobalRule
This contains a list of statements that allow NewsHound to decide whether
to completely ignore an article, download only the header, or download
the whole article. This file can be editted manually - do not remove
the lines beginning with $'s. It is also modified by the addgroup
program.
You can use this file to automatically select interesting articles
out of groups that are downloaded header only.
For example, if I wanted to download all the articles by 'John' in
csa.misc, I'd add a line like this:
comp.sys.acorn.misc * *John* * * art
[group name subject From Bytes Lines Amount]
just after the '$ exceptions:' line in !NewsHound.Config.GlobalRule.
You can also adjust the maximum size of article that is fetched
complete, by changing the line after '$ max articlesize'. Any articles
that are bigger than this (100k by default) will only have their
headers downloaded, unless you specify otherwise.