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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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SEG <seg@technologist.com> wrote:

> 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.

You are likely to always have some trouble with this latter point as the
same article will have two different article numbers on two different
servers. 
It should be possible to make a backup copy of whichever file stores the
data, if you can find out which one it is. 

Have you tried using different sets of internet config settings? 

-- 
ap

In article <1dmxfim.16g5g2dxb4tsyN@ra201017.shef.ac.uk>,
a.c.pugh@shef.ac.uk (andy the pugh) wrote:

>You are likely to always have some trouble with this latter point as the
>same article will have two different article numbers on two different
>servers. 
>It should be possible to make a backup copy of whichever file stores the
>data, if you can find out which one it is. 
>
>Have you tried using different sets of internet config settings? 

There will still be the same problem with article numbers.

One solution is to use a newsreader that employs headers to fetch the
articles, another is an off-line reader such as NewsHopper which stores
article numbers in a 'fetch' file for a given news server, so that you can
keep your feed from different servers separate. But then, you will still
get duplicates as it fetches the same articles from the different servers.
Fetching by header is the only real solution. Doesn't
MacSlurp/Toadnews/TheNews do that?

-- 
Peter