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Re: "customized" newsgroup?
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Tue, 29 Sep 1998 17:34:09 GMT
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Very good idea.  I'll look into it furthur.
-John Van

Fredrik Glöckner wrote in message ...
> "John VanZwieten" <john_vanzwieten@msn.com> writes:
> 
> >  Todd, is it technically feasable to create a sort of "vitual newsgroup"
> >  where an individual could define his own group to include all posts from
> >  specified newsgroups?
> 
> I don't think it's a clever idea to implement this on the server side,
> but then again, I haven't got much experience with NNTP servers.
> 
> My software allows me to do just this on the client side, actually.  I
> can generate any virtual newsgroup containing the groups I want to.  I
> use Gnus (http://www.gnus.org/), which is a newsreader running under
> Emacs, which is an editor with a lot of extra features.
> 
> Are you sure you can't choose custom news servers, say, to make the
> reading of these groups simpler on your software?
> 
> Fredrik



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(...) I don't think it's a clever idea to implement this on the server side, but then again, I haven't got much experience with NNTP servers. My software allows me to do just this on the client side, actually. I can generate any virtual newsgroup (...) (28 years ago, 29-Sep-98, to lugnet.admin.general)

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