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Date:	Sun, 14 Dec 2003 21:48:50 PST8
From:	Tom Brown <thombrown@san.rr.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: No News is ProNews ?

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I have been using ProNews for years, and have not found anything better,
ahthough I have not found the need to do an exhaustive search . Have you
added the news servers that you are interested in? I have:
news.ecomstation.nl, news.mozilla.org, news.scitechsoft.com, and
news-san.rr.com.

Click ProNews/2 > Settings then fill in the Server Hostname and click
Add. From the main screen, you then need to click on the Server name in
the right hand column and the All Groups tab to get a list of the news
groups on that server. Then you select the groups that you want to
subscribe to. Ctrl-left click to select groups, right click and
"manually subscribe". Back to the Subscriptions tab and double-click on
a group to display the headers of the messages in the group.

Experiment a bit! ProNews/2 beats the heck out of Netscape and Mozilla
for reading newsgroups. It has a filtering facility that lets me filter
out FUD4 and other obnoxious junk so that it never appears on my screen.
My experience is not universal, but I have not seen anything better for
keeping track of newsgroups than ProNews!

HTH

J. R. Fox wrote:

>O.K., I took a (very) quick look at News Harvest, and I'm thinking it
>may be Yesterday's news. (Maybe I'm not being fair here . . . )
>
>So, I installed ProNews into ECS for some testing, but I can't get it
>to do anything. I entered what I take to be the necessary config
>information into the configuration notebook, starting with the
>intended News Server, my username, and password. I did not fill in
>the line of boxes that goes
>
> Server Hostname Alias Port (this is
>already filled in by default)
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>because I don't know what this is or if it is necessary.
>
>Anyway, ProNews suggests that it is connecting to retrieve the master
>list of available newsgroups, but NOTHING happens -- even waiting for
>a very long time. I can hit 'E' for Execute a number of times. At
>one point, it claimed to have 43 connections open, which I gather is
>not possible. I think it is bombing out attempting to connect, but
>there is no clear error about this. Funny, but NS 4.61 never had a
>problem getting this far. I probably just don't know what I'm doing,
>but so far this program is worthless to me. Oh, one other thing --
>whatever I enter into the Config Notebook does not stick; it ain't
>there, the next time I call up the program. Flipping through the
>Online Help has not been particularly helpful, in terms of being able
>to just get in through the front door.
>
>Suggestions ?
>
>
>Jordan
>
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