On 29 Dec 14  20:03:54, Paul Hayton said the following to Nick Andre:

PH>  NA> The Index address was initially used for the USENET.BBS file but I am
PH>  NA> going to be rewriting that function. Leave it blank. Just use my
PH> 
PH> Thanks Nick, looks like I have to supply something in the field as it won't
PH> let me move to the option to force an update of available newsgroups unless
PH> populate it with something.

GUI bug. Use arrow-up to scroll backwards, it will move the cursor to it.

Give the index field the gateway address but watch carefully what happens in 
the output of NEWSRC explained below.

Since you are trying to understand how DB does things with forcing the update 
of available groups, I would not use that command until you read the rest 
below... that command essentially executes VSOUPWIN -A (your ISP) followed 
immediately by Soupgate IMPORT and NEWSRC.EXE.

PH>  NA> The NEWSRC program is what generates the indexes for D'Bridge Areafix.
PH>  NA> It is only ran once, or whenever you decide to nuke the NEWSRC text fi
PH>  NA> and re-load the groups from your ISP. Keep in mind when you do this, y
PH>  NA> need to re-Areafix all of the subscribed groups again... something els
PH>  NA> I'm planning to rewrite. 
PH> 
PH> Yep but it would also nuke the other systems subscribed to the groups as we

Yes. NEWSRC.EXE nukes everything. Its taking the raw output of the NEWSRC text
file from the VSoup program with the -A parameter and generating USENET.BBS 
for D'Bridge along with AREAS.AKA and AREAS.SEC (text files containing default
Fido addresses and group/security when auto-adding the Usenet areas). The 
program does not take into account the currently-subscribed areas, so thats 
why you need to be careful running that. 

I know its a mess but again - this was never something I was happy with or 
intending for the general public to use, until now.

PH>  NA> You can also create a NEWSRC.BLK file containing keywords of Usenet
PH>  NA> groups you do not want to carry on your system, ie. warez, binaries,
PH>  NA> etc. This file is only parsed once when the NEWSRC program is ran.
PH> 
PH> Is there a syntax / wildcards I can/should use inside this file?

No. Any entry that matches will be rejected (not added to D'Bridge Areafix). 
Semi-colon entries are ignored within.

; Block list for newsrc
binarie
binaried
binaries
sex.pictures
pictures
pics
warez
porn

The best way to understand all of this is to nuke NEWSTIME and the NEWSRC text
file (the one with no extension). Then run VSOUPWIN -A (your ISP info), run 
Soupgate Import, then run NEWSRC.EXE... look at the contents of NEWSRC.TXT, 
AREAS.AKA, AREAS.SEC and USENET.BBS.

Vsoup generates reports every time it runs. By default, D'Bridge does not 
import them. You should remove the line "JunkFrom VSOUP" from
SOUPGATE.CFG to 
override this.

Nick

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