Re: Best way for novice user to start GNUS

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From: Paul Sammy 4th Year iE/CES
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1993 20:41

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>Regarding Best way for novice user to start GNUS; bosch@loria.fr (Guido Bosch) adds:

 > Novice news users that read the News the very first time with GNUS are
 > often struck down by the time it takes to check all the newsgroups (we
 > get about 1500 at our site). Is there a way to perform a *fast*
 > `catch-up' or `unsubscribe' operation to produce an up-to-date
 > .newsrc? 

 I dunno, but the default news reader here is rn -- most people are
 put off by having to wade through all the newsgroups deciding if they
 want to subscribe or not.
 The waiting time for gnus is a damn sight faster.

 > 	Guido

 Paul
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From: ssammy@cs.strath.ac.uk (Paul Sammy 4th Year iE/CES)
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Subject: Re: Best way for novice user to start GNUS
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