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Re: Dear NNTP users,
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lugnet.admin.general
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Date:
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Wed, 3 Aug 2005 18:44:46 GMT
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"Jacob Sparre Andersen" <sparre@nbi.dk> wrote in message
news:IKILK5.22FD@lugnet.com...
> Tim David wrote:
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> > 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?
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> a) You don't "subscribe" to a newsgroup, you follow it.
Actually, in Outlook Express, you *do* subscribe. It's there in a tab at the
top: 'Subscribed'
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> b) You don't. That's the idea with not following a group.
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> > One of the things I like doing is seeing what is going on in other
> > groups every so often.
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> Then you have to follow - or at least sporadically read - those groups.
Thank goodness for 'Mark all as read' :-)
Tony
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| (...) a) You don't "subscribe" to a newsgroup, you follow it. b) You don't. That's the idea with not following a group. (...) Then you have to follow - or at least sporadically read - those groups. If we imagine the - still fictive - FTX aware (...) (20 years ago, 31-Jul-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
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