🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sunday, in article <833111862snz@siberia.demon.co.uk>
     philip@siberia.demon.co.uk "Philip McNab" wrote:

PM> A further thought for the Snews wishlist: 
PM> 
PM> Addgroup.exe in Snews 1.30 still creates numeric names for new 
PM> newsgroups, but will support any name; I tend to rename my groups 
PM> manually, by renaming the ~\spool\news\newsbase files and then hacking 
PM> ~\spool\news\active.  (e.g. this newsgroup is filed as D-I-S-PC)

I used to do that, but now that I've been running for almost
a year with a modified version of addgroup that gens the
names automatically and consistently, I realise that <sigh>
I'm not as consistent as a computer.  I find it much easier
to locate the files, having a rule-based system.  It's quicker
too.

Talking of speed, I did feed these mods back to Demon, but
1.31 does seem, well, ...  slow in arriving.

I'll gladly make a modified addgroup available if I can find
some ftp space on a machine somewhere.

--
John Washington