On 21 Apr 99 13:36:53 +0000
Tim Burgess of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
pontificated on the subject of
[md-2] Subscribing to News Groups:
> Hi,
>
> With free4all supporting 40000+ news groups you'll probably
> understand the time involved with downloading a new list which may
> only have a few adjustments to it.
>
> Is it possible to make Microdot only update the group list rather than
> load the whole thing again?.
As thegroup list appears to just be an ascii file, I doubt that md
would be able to do that, and even if it could, the time it would take
to scan and compare the differences and just download the new parts
would take longer than just downloading.
Of course, I could be wrong.
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