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Article #700Re: What happened to half of the News groups?
From: Eli the Bearded
Date: Tue, 05 Aug 1997 00:00
Date: Tue, 05 Aug 1997 00:00
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Sizilia <sizilia@alt.anonymous.messages> wrote: > On Tue, 05 Aug 1997 19:38:30 GMT, cya@no.spam.nym.alias.net.no.spam > (c.y.a.) wrote: > >What's AGO? > AGO stands for Agent Group Order, that's a tool that allows you to > change the order of the newsgroups from plain alpha-sorting to an > order you'd like. You may get it for free at > ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/jo/jonzonk/agent/agent_tools.html All Unix newsreaders I've seen since about 1988 allow you to do this just by editing the (text) newsrc file to put the lines in any order you want. Elijah ------ nyah, nyah. :^)
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