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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
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Organization: U. of Nebraska at Omaha
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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?

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