 | | From: | exclipy | | Subject: | Subscribing to unlisted newsgroup | | Date: | Tue, 04 Jan 2005 21:26:43 +1000 |
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 | Is it possible to subscribe to a newsgroup that isn't listed in the list?
I ask because Opera always stalls (bad charset?) halfway through
downloading the newsgroup list, at a particular point.
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| | From: | Steven V. Gunhouse | | Subject: | Re: Subscribing to unlisted newsgroup | | Date: | Tue, 04 Jan 2005 15:49:39 GMT |
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| On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 21:26:43 +1000, exclipy wrote:
> Is it possible to subscribe to a newsgroup that isn't listed in the
> list? I ask because Opera always stalls (bad charset?) halfway through
> downloading the newsgroup list, at a particular point.
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If you make up a properly-formatted URL, it might work. Something like
nntp:///
(I may have that wrong, I'm not very familiar with newsgroup URLs.)
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| | From: | exclipy | | Subject: | Re: Subscribing to unlisted newsgroup | | Date: | Thu, 06 Jan 2005 21:49:43 +1000 |
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| >> Is it possible to subscribe to a newsgroup that isn't listed in the
>> list? I ask because Opera always stalls (bad charset?) halfway through
>> downloading the newsgroup list, at a particular point.
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> If you make up a properly-formatted URL, it might work. Something like
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> nntp:///
Thanks, I should have thought of that myself.
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| | From: | Rijk van Geijtenbeek | | Subject: | Re: Subscribing to unlisted newsgroup | | Date: | Wed, 05 Jan 2005 12:37:51 +0100 |
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| On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 15:49:39 GMT, Steven V. Gunhouse wrote:
> On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 21:26:43 +1000, exclipy wrote:
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>> Is it possible to subscribe to a newsgroup that isn't listed in the
>> list? I ask because Opera always stalls (bad charset?) halfway through
>> downloading the newsgroup list, at a particular point.
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> If you make up a properly-formatted URL, it might work. Something like
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> nntp:///
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> (I may have that wrong, I'm not very familiar with newsgroup URLs.)
Or by manually editing the newsrc file.
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