On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 08:11:27AM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 09:59:09AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > > > > I has been a long time since I have been actively reading > > newsgroups. Long ago I have used tin and gnus to do that. I would not > > recoommend gnus for newbies. It is not the easiest reader to set up > > but it is very powerful. > > I stopped using tin a few (maybe 5) years ago, because every time I started > it it gave me a list of hundreds (seemed like thousands) of new newsgroups > I had to decide, one by one, whether to subscribe to. It just took too > long to get the the messages I wanted. > > Has this changed? I don't use tin, but if there's an option to unsubscribe automatically from new groups (or not list them at all) I'm sure it will be in the man page. > Nowadays I use Pan, under X. I should try sometime if Pan also has > a text console interface... It hasn't. > Or some documentation. Only on the website. If tin can't do what you want, you could try slrn with this option in your .slrnrc: set unsubscribe_new_groups 1 which will mark new groups as unsubscribed, or call slrn with the -n option, to avoid checking for new groups. -- PJR :-)
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