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Paul Womar <Newsmaster@pwomar.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> 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.

Yes, but you only need to do this once though and you would have thought
that Internet Config could be extended to utilise one common newsgroup
list for all apps.