Re: Connecting a Mac to Demon

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From: Paul Womar
Date: Sun, 08 Mar 1998 00:00

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Alan Guest <alan@macropolis.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> OK. I did write the 'cons' of MacSoup without checking the facts. It
> does have a full newsgroup listing as you say but mine has always been
> dimmed in the menu as I have never asked it to download a list of all
> groups. Why it can't download a list at first connection to the news
> server as Netscape and IE do seems beyond me. 

It gives you the option in the connection box, I'm very glad it gives me
the option, it annoyed the hell out of me when I was trying out news
software, I knew the groups I wanted so I'd liked to have just typed
them i instead of spending 5 minutes several times over) downloading a
list of 30,000+ newsgroups.

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Date: 1998/03/08
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