Re: does slrn host a collection of all newsgroups only temporarly?
On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 14:49:09 +0100, Robert Land wrote:
> I'm new to slrn and did a apt-get install a few weeks ago. I'm not that
> sure anymore but I thought apt-get had prompted for a valid news server
> while being in installation mode.
> Addionaly I also thought slrn had pulled all newsgroups from the prompted
> newsserver (at least I have this warning about 'it could take a few
> minutes' in my mind).
>
> After this installation I didn't bother about this programm - up to today
> - realizing there was no .newsrc or .jnewsrc on my disk.
It asks whether to fetch the newsgroup descriptions (not their content -
that takes quite a bit longer than a few minutes) which it caches in
/var/lib/slrn/newsgroups.dsc .
HTH,
Ray
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