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Re: descriptions for newsgroups?
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lugnet.admin.general
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Date:
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Fri, 30 Oct 1998 22:46:28 GMT
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mattdm@mattdm.org (Matthew Miller) writes:
> jadzia:~$ lugnet -d
> slrn 0.9.4.3 (Apr 27 1998 15:58:34)
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> Reading startup file /usr/lib/slrn/slrn.rc.
> Reading startup file /home/mattdm/.slrnrc.
> Connecting to host lugnet.com ...
> Connected to host. Posting Ok.
> Creating description file /home/mattdm/.jnewsrc-lugnet.dsc.
> Getting newsgroup descriptions from server.
> Note: This step may take some time if you have a slow connection!!!
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> Server failed on list newsgroups command.
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> Hey!
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> Don't lugnet groups have a description?
Good catch -- I haven't yet made the script that converts the big description
into little descriptions... The 'newsgroups' file spec has some weird
requirements -- the descriptions have to start on column 24 (or something) and
be less than 56 characters and end with a period (something like that) so there
isn't going to be an easy algorithm to convert the multi-sentence description
into a short description for most groups. I probably need to set up a second
descriptions file by hand and have it use those. Thanks for the reminder.
--Todd
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| jadzia:~$ lugnet -d slrn 0.9.4.3 (Apr 27 1998 15:58:34) Reading startup file /usr/lib/slrn/slrn.rc. Reading startup file /home/mattdm/.slrnrc. Connecting to host lugnet.com ... Connected to host. Posting Ok. Creating description file (...) (26 years ago, 30-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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