On the 01/9/96  00:19, Gaelyne waffled to Dieter..

 Hello Gaelyne,

 DM> This is a weird internet question, and I can't quite figure out
 DM> how to do this...

 GG> No one else can either, till they ask someone.
 
 The answer was obvious ....

 GG> The newsreader programs tend to d/l ALL of the newsgroups articles in
 GG> simple text format - uncompressed and one at a time which I find
 GG> tedious so I use UQWK instead.   UQWK lets you get the mail in either
 GG> SOUP or QWK format and there are many SOUP readers available for the
 GG> PC and Windows.  I use QWK, but that's personal preference.
 
 If I get bored with the netscape add-in, I'll try one of these
 routes.

 
 DM> The newsgroups are those rec.xxx or news.xxx things. I can see
 DM> them online, and read them, but it's a slow and labourious process
 DM> paging down dozens of entries.

 GG> If you use telnet and read the groups using an online utility like
 GG> Tin, you can have the mail threaded so you can skip boring threads and
 GG> spams, plus you can use a kill file (like the ultimate twit list) so
 GG> you don't see stuff from certain people or certain subjects.

 GG> And there's even a way to use the kill files from the online
 GG> newsreaders in conjunction with UQWK so you don't download crap you
 GG> don't wanna see either.

 I read about that process in one of those ubiquitous Internet
 for Dummies . They author must have been a bit behind
 the times, the kill example neglected to mention Rod Speed.

 Dieter
 

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