On 22 Apr 99 10:44:36 +0000 Nimrod said:> 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.
> --
I used to use Micro$oft News and every time it first loaded up it
would pop up a message saying "There are new Newsgroups. Do you want
to view them?" You could then see all the new ones and subscribe to
any that looked good or close the window and continue. I only had to
download the full list once.
Paul.
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