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Re: [Q]: can NewsWatcher remember different settings for diferrent ISPs?

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From: Stan The Man
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 00:00
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In article <918464257.8646.0.nnrp-06.9e981d17@news.demon.co.uk>, SEG
<seg@technologist.com> wrote:

>Hi there,
>
>I was wondering if there is any way of making YA NewsWatcher "remember" your
>favourite set of newsgroups and their history, for a particular ISP.
>
>My problem is that if I want to try, say, freeserve, when I connect and run
>NewsWatcher, it brings back all the newsgroups and I have to start from
>scratch, defining which ones I want to read etc.
>
>Then, when I go back to using my Demon connection, it does the same thing -
>reads all the newsgroups. It also seems to have lost the history of the news
>groups I subscribe to, i.e. which articles I have read.
>
>I suppose I can work around this by using, say, Outlook express, for testing
>new ISP's news.

YA-NW 4.0.3 can do this but it needs OS 8.5. There's another new
version available (3.1.5?) which doesn't require 8.5 but I am not sure
whether it lacks any v4 features.

Stan

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Subject: Re: [Q]: can NewsWatcher remember different settings for diferrent ISPs?
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