G'day Dieter,


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

No one else can either, till they ask someone.


 DM> How do I get get the newsgroups automatically fed to me in a form
 DM> I can read off-line ??

Get a newsreader program or get either a decent QWK or SOUP reader and
use UQWK (an online Unix utility).

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


 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.

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

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

Cheers,
Gaelyne

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