Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!wugate!wupost!kuhub.cc.ukans.edu!unocss!fritz From: fritz@unocss.UUCP (Tim Russell) Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news Subject: Re: NEWS create command,how about /NOINQUIRE ? Message-ID: <1338@unocss.UUCP> Date: 7 Aug 89 15:49:55 GMT References: <8908070818.AA17461@uunet.uu.net> Organization: U. of Nebraska at Omaha Lines: 37 munnari!csc.anu.oz.au!gih900@UUNET.UU.NET (Geoff Huston) writes: |perhaps the answer is to use a different verb for an automatic "catch-up" of a |client system to a particular server -- UPDATE springs to mind, but it is |already used - how about: | | UPDATE/CLIENT [/SERVER=node] [/PROTOCOL=protocol] | |which would create all newsgroups currently held on the server which are not |already defined on the client system?? I like this idea. It's one of the few things left that I'd really like to see. It was getting to the point that I was going to set up an NNTP server explicitly for the purpose of having our NNTP server send 'control' to it to create new groups automatically. Glad I won't have to. In the same 'new newsgroup' vein - we have a problem. The NEWREGISTER profile entry seems to be off by default, which seems terribly silly to me - our users are supposed to wade through 497 groups to find new ones? I'd like to see either a system-wide default profile (which would be preferable) or a default of /NEWREGISTER=* for that entry. |> p.s: Another suggestion for improvement : It would be nice if Ctrl-W (screen |> refresh) also redefined the previously loaded keypad definitions. |> Very handy if one is switching between terminal server sessions for |> example. | |I'm a bit wary of this one - C-W is meant to be fast, and a reload of the |keydefs would start slowing things down a bit... opinions? I don't like it either.. Maybe DEFINE/KEY/RELOAD or something? -- ---------------------------------+-------------------------------------------- Tim Russell, Computer Operator | Internet: russell@zeus.unl.edu Campus Computing | Bitnet: russell@unoma1 University of Nebraska at Omaha | UUCP: uunet!zeus.unl.edu!russell