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From: mst@mx.csun.edu (Mike Temkin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: MAJOR problems with TheNews -- advice/information sought
Message-ID: <1990Dec17.162746.669@csun.edu>
Date: 17 Dec 90 16:27:46 GMT
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In article <1990Dec10.124859.76@bio.embnet.se> Mats.Sundvall@BMC.UU.SE writes:
>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

Those are suggestions that I would like to see, but would like the option
of having my newsgroup data file in the same format that rn uses.  That way
I could mount my UNIX account via NFS or AppleShare and use it for both
TheNews (at work) and rn (at home).

Mike.
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Mike Temkin
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