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Re: Dear NNTP users,
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Date: 
Sun, 31 Jul 2005 23:07:17 GMT
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Tim David wrote:

> One thing I don't understand, having now used NNTP (and
> saved an offline cache of .trains 'just in case'!) is how
> you know about things in groups you don't subscribe to?

a) You don't "subscribe" to a newsgroup, you follow it.

b) You don't.  That's the idea with not following a group.

> One of the things I like doing is seeing what is going on in other
> groups every so often.

Then you have to follow - or at least sporadically read - those groups.

If we imagine the - still fictive - FTX aware newsreader Steve and I are
considering, you would probably only tell it to auto-download images from the
newsgroups you're really interested in and then primarily browse the headlines
from the secondary newsgroups.

Play well,

Jacob
--
A LEGO construction site:
             http://lego.jacob-sparre.dk/By/Huse/Skyskraber/



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  Re: Dear NNTP users,
 
"Jacob Sparre Andersen" <sparre@nbi.dk> wrote in message news:IKILK5.22FD@lugnet.com... (...) Actually, in Outlook Express, you *do* subscribe. It's there in a tab at the top: 'Subscribed' (...) Thank goodness for 'Mark all as read' :-) Tony (21 years ago, 3-Aug-05, to lugnet.admin.general)

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  Re: Dear NNTP users,
 
One thing I don't understand, having now used NNTP (and saved an offline cache of .trains 'just in case'!) is how you know about things in groups you don't subscribe to? One of the things I like doing is seeing what is going on in other groups every (...) (21 years ago, 31-Jul-05, to lugnet.admin.general)

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