Hi, No it sertainly shouldn't. First, let me clear up subscribing.
In order to use nntp groups, you first need to subscribe to a news
server, generally by providing your email address and either getting a
log on and password from your internet service provider, or by paying
for a subscription newsgroup service. Subscribing to a news server
gives you access to the list of groups carried by that server, and it
also gives you a right to subscribe to any group the server carries.
So you are obviously subbed to a news group server and you have a list
of groups. At least that is what I'm reading here. Now the trick is
to subscribe to a group and start downloading headers. I must admit
this has been a snap under evry other program I've used, but I don't
really get it under unison. I suspect that it handles the
subscription on the fly for you so that you don't even have to think
about it.
Here's the only way I've been able to get it to work. You need the
full name of a group. If you know what groups you want to subscribe
to, then you are off to the races. If not, browse until you find
something you like and get it's full name.
Press command k, and type the name of the group, such as
alt.binaries.mp3.audiobooks.
Press enter.
A new window will open and unison will immediately download all the
headers since you last visitted. In your case this will be never. If
you're trying alt.binaries.mp3.audiobooks and you notice it stops
after 25000 headers, then go into the group menue and choose get all
headers. In fact, you might want to go into the preferences and tell
unison to get about a millian or so headers. I had it set to 250000,
but it seems a.b.m.a actually has more headers than that today, and I
was thinking, "Oh forget this". I really want the whole group. It's
nothing to go trough that many messages as unison has them all nicely
threaded.
The point I was making before I got side tracked, is that when you do
your command K and type your group name, unison subbs you automaticly
and grabs headers for you to parroose.
Caution, It can take a long time for unison to get the headers. It
took at least 5 or 10 minutes to pull down 250,000 headers from
a.b.m.a at about a meg per second, and that wasn't even the whole
group. Also make sure you delete the headers when you're done with
them. They make quite a mess.
Best,
erik burggraaf
Certified Technician
Assistive Computing LTD Support and training
Sales department: 888-828-2445
Support and Training: 888-255-5194
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Website coming soon
On 24-Nov-08, at 1:45 PM, Scott Howell wrote:
Eric, I might be a bit ignorant here, but I assumed by providing my
e-mail address and the server settings I would somehow automatically
be joined. I guess I see what your saying, but at the same time I
shouldn't be able to see the groups, correct? Maybe I'm missing
something here and any light you can shed on this would be
appreciated. This shouldn't be so difficult.
tnxOn Nov 24, 2008, at 3:54 PM, erik burggraaf wrote:
Hi Scott,
You have to subscribe to the group you want and download it's
headers before unison will show you the messages. There ott to be
a way to bookmark favourite groups too, but I haven't really gotten
that to work too well yet.
Best,
erik burggraaf
Certified Technician
Assistive Computing LTD Support and training
Sales department: 888-828-2445
Support and Training: 888-255-5194
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Website coming soon
On 23-Nov-08, at 12:14 PM, Scott Howell wrote:
Folks,
I grabbed a copy of Unison as it seems to be the only program that
will do what I want., but I can't quite get there all the way.
Seems I can see the list of groups for the most part, but no
messages within the groups. I tried arrowing to the right and just
get a blank area. ANy thoughts?
tnx
Scott Howell
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
