Re: a strategy for reading newsgroups

[prad <prad@towardsfreedom.com>]

Massimo Gengarelli <gengarel@cs.unibo.it> writes:

> While in the *Group* buffer, move your cursor over the newsgroup and
> press M-c c, then answer "y" at the question. Voilà, newsgroup marked as
> read.
>
many thx massimo - for this as well as the info about how and why the
author shows up the way it does earlier.

newsgroups certainly require a different way of thinking about how to do
things than forums - like when you're asked how many items to download
when you go into a group ... i just never know. :D

also, i haven't figured out how to search effectively in a newsgroup
(with gnus or claws-mail). on the web, i can just go to the search box
the newsgroup provides, but here i'm not sure what to do, yet. there is
likely some mechanism to archive and create indices - mairix possibly
though the manual seems to indicate it's for email.

anyway, time to go study the manual!

-- 
In friendship,
prad