[Noffle-users] Re: 1.1.4: problems marking newsgroups for fetching

[Miernik <mi...@ct...>]

In article <XFM...@ac...>, Jim Hague wrote:

> The idea of online mode was that while you were connected on dial-up you could
> browse through unscubscribed newsgroups to try them out. If you're just
> dropping into a newsgroup to see if it contains anything interesting, you don't

Well, that would be great, but for me it just does not work that way. 
When I enter a new newsgroup, in online mode, I just get a message 
that there are no messages in this newsgroup.

I need to swith to offline mode, mark the group for fetching, then run 
noffle -f, and only then I am able to enter a newsgroup.

I'd love to browse newsgroups without subscribing, but it doesn't work. 

What am I doing wrong, or is there a bug?
I use slrn 0.9.7.4-35 from Debian. 

> want to auto-subscribe and collect the past few hundred messages before you can
> see any content in that newsgroup. In online mode you should be able to visit a
> newsgroup you've not subscribed to and read articles in that group, and only
> the articles you actually read will land in the local article database (i.e.
> Noffle becomes a pure caching proxy).
> 
> I recently removed references to online mode from the INSTALL instructions - it
> causes so much confusion. I've never used it myself, either on dial-up or with
> a cable modem, and given that it complicates the code somewhat I'd cheerfully
> remove it.

No, no, please do not remove online mode. I use only online mode. 

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