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From: Mats.Sundvall@BMC.UU.SE
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: MAJOR problems with TheNews -- advice/information sought
Message-ID: <1990Dec10.124859.76@bio.embnet.se>
Date: 10 Dec 90 02:40:58 GMT
References: <1990Dec7.091005.28377@sarah.albany.edu> <535@ucunix.SAN.UC.EDU>
Organization: Dept of Medical Genetics, Uppsala Univerity, Swed
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Nntp-Posting-Host: mac3.medgen.uu.se

In article <535@ucunix.SAN.UC.EDU> rainwatr@ucunix.SAN.UC.EDU (Don Rainwater)
writes:
>In article <1990Dec7.091005.28377@sarah.albany.edu> derek@leah.albany.edu
(Cinderella Man) writes:
>        [Paraphrased - indicated by [ ] throughout. ]
>> [ Mac NNTP news reader, TheNews 1.0.  Looks impressive.  Won't work. ]
>> [ Read the manual.  No luck.]
>
>        Me too.
>

Not me.

I am using it to post this article, Mac II Ci, but not with ethertalk.
Localtalk via a Gatorbox. It works both with system 6.05 and the
7.0 beta. I had similar problems with empty groups before I enabled
access in my nntp server for the news client.

It is a very nice and fast program but could be improved. I would like
to see the machin "preference" within the saved file. This would make
it very easy to use several different newsservers with different groups. Now I
have to manually change the address and then open the
file.
Another suggestion would be to make the read forward command to pass
newsgroup boundaries. Now you have to close the newsgroup and open the next.
Read an entry and then do read forward.

    Mats Sundvall
    Dept of Medical Genetics,
    Uppsala University,
    Uppsala Sweden