HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: brendan@cygnus.com (Brendan Kehoe)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: [generic] INN performance [not just] on SPARC-2?
Date: 3 Sep 92 17:51:40 GMT
	<1992Sep3.135815.11667@sniap.mchp.sni.de>
Reply-To: brendan@cygnus.com
Organization: Cygnus Support, Palo Alto, CA
In-reply-to: Mike.Hoffmann@sniap.mchp.sni.de's message of Thu, 3 Sep 92 13:58:15 GMT

In article <1992Sep3.135815.11667@sniap.mchp.sni.de> Mike.Hoffmann@sniap.mchp.sni.de (Mike Hoffmann) writes:

   Please post any performance results and recommendations. We will be facing
   a similar situation soon. Only our machine will be a 32MB SGI Crimson w/
   1.4GB Disk. It will also be a central mail-server. Number of users is
   several hundred with a few dozen connected via NNTP remote news-readers at
   any time.

I ran INN on a Sparc 2 that also acted as the primary mail, NFS, and
just about everything else, server.  The only time I noticed any
performance drags was when I ran out of space, when INN didn't handle
that very well (it's better now).  As for normal running performance,
I didn't notice a load above 1.0 most of the time with eight full NNTP
feeds (nntplink on both sides), as many partial NNTP feeds, and about
a dozen UUCP feeds.

I can tell you the performance improvement was dramatic when I first
tried INN after running Cnews for a year.  It boggles the mind to see
ten articles all come in within two seconds.  (Each about 20ms+ apart.)

   The machine will receive a full feed via NNTP, will run mthreads for trn
   (XTHREADS extension) and (as mentioned) run IDA/sendmail with address-
   rewriting etc.

Then you'll barely even notice it's running, I should think.

--
Brendan Kehoe                                               brendan@cygnus.com
Cygnus Support, Palo Alto, CA                                  +1 415 322 3811
                       Oooh! A handsome stranger! And me, without my shoes on.
                                     --The Princess, The Emperor's New Clothes
From: taka@fxis.fujixerox.co.jp (Takahiro Kanbe)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: InterNetNews: ihave/sendme problem.
Date: 1 Sep 92 12:56:52 GMT
	<17fq4iINNjp6@fxisms.fxis.fujixerox.co.jp>
	<1992Aug26.131320.13450@osf.org>
Distribution: inet
Organization: Fuji Xerox Information Systems Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan.
NNTP-Posting-Host: litra.nwt.fxis.fujixerox.co.jp
In-reply-to: rsalz@osf.org's message of 26 Aug 92 13:13:20 GMT

In article <1992Aug26.131320.13450@osf.org>
	rsalz@osf.org (Rich Salz) writes:
> The correct fix, which will be in the first patch, is
> 	 ${DONN} && test -f ${NEWSBIN}/nnadmin && ${NEWSBIN}/nnadmin L@
Thanks.

And I found that my previous fixes in frontend/inews.c and
nnrpd/post.c dose not allow posting "checkgroups" messages.
This could fix similarly, adding pass "checkgroups".

Is there some needs for nnrpd to refuse those control message posting?

--
Takahiro Kanbe <taka@fxis.fujixerox.co.jp>	FXIS / Network Team.
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
From: kdenning@portal.hq.videocart.com (Karl Denninger)
Subject: NNTP for SVR4
Organization: VideOcart Inc.
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 16:34:52 GMT

Has anyone ported NNTP to SVR4?  I am getting some interesting compiler
diagnostics.... we're trying to run the copy that DELL ships with their OS,
and its leaving all kinds of runt files in the in.coming directory.

Thanks in advance for any pointers!

--
Karl Denninger 		Inet:  kdenning@hq.videocart.com
VideOcart Inc.		Voice: (312) 987-5022
Xref: sparky news.software.nntp:1095 news.software.b:2859
From: pasalvin@maytag.uwaterloo.ca (Paul A. Salvini)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp,news.software.b
Subject: C-news cant keep up with NNTP - Also how to stop extra postings
Date: 4 Sep 92 13:55:42 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: University of Waterloo
Originator: pasalvin@maytag.uwaterloo.ca

First of all, let me say I have just tuned in and noticed talk about a new
performance release of c-news. This may be the answer but,...

Our in.coming file is constantly growing. It seems that newsrun cant keep up
with it. Is there something wrong? Should I get this new version?  Our news
feed is approx. 3 days behind and getting gurther behind by the minute. The
newsrun program is constantly running. I have stopped it, newsboot'ed it
nothing seems to change. Any suggestions.

In my sys file I have what I thought amounted to local postings only being sent
to our nnntp feed. But looking at our out.nntp directory it appears as though
it wants to try and send every article.  What is the proper switch setting
on the sys line? Could it be something else on the sys line? Any suggestions?

Thanks -- please email me at derwin@mach2.wlu.ca or POST if you must (I may get
it 3 days later :-))
From: ronk@cascade.ens.tek.com (Ron Kirkpatrick 627-6707 50-454)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: Another small (???) problem with INN 1.0
Date: 31 Aug 92 15:44:34 GMT
Reply-To: Ron.C.Kirkpatrick@tek.com
Organization: Tektronix, Inc.,  Beaverton, OR

In article <36939@zephyr.ens.tek.com>, ronk@cascade.ens.tek.com (Ron Kirkpatrick 627-6707 50-454) writes:
|> 
|> I have run across a problem with the expire utility. My current test
|> environment has a small news partition and filled up on Friday. When I came
|> in this morning (Monday) I found that expire had NOT been able to do it's
|> job:
|> 
|> > Server throttled No space (spool) [innwatch:32] 9742 lt 10000 -- pressing on
..
|> 
|> > Already throttled
|> > Wrong reason
|> > Expire messages:
|> > expire begin Sun Aug 30 02:30:36 PDT 1992: (-v1)
|> >     Can't reserve server
..
|> > expire end Sun Aug 30 02:30:36 PDT 1992
|> > ---------

It didn't take as long to find the problem as I thought it would. The reason
being passed by innwatch.ctl/innwatch is not the same reason that news.daily
is looking for. The differences for news.daily are:

diff news.daily news.daily.ORIG
2c2
< ##  $Revision: 1.4 $
---
> ##  $Revision: 1.3 $
168c168
<     *throttle*"No space"*)
---
>     *space*" -- throttling")

I reran the news.daily script and it did it's thing this time.

-- 
Ron Kirkpatrick
Tektronix, Inc
News Administrator
503-627-6707
From: ronk@cascade.ens.tek.com (Ron Kirkpatrick;627-6707;50-454;LP=A;)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: bug in nntpsend
Date: 27 Aug 92 16:56:35 GMT
Reply-To: Ron.C.Kirkpatrick@tek.com
Organization: Tektronix, Inc.,  Beaverton, OR

There is a problem with one of the test lines in nntpsend:

diff nntpsend.ORIG nntpsend
2c2
< ##  $Revision: 1.3 $
---
> ##  $Revision: 1.4 $
227c227
< 	test -n "${D_PARAM}" INNFLAGS="${INNFLAGS} ${D_PARAM}"
---
> 	test -n "${D_PARAM}" && INNFLAGS="${INNFLAGS} ${D_PARAM}"

-- 
Ron Kirkpatrick
Tektronix, Inc
MailBridge Postmaster
503-627-6707
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
From: kre@cs.mu.oz.au (Robert Elz)
Subject: Re: Another small (???) problem with INN 1.0
Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 20:03:26 GMT

In <36939@zephyr.ens.tek.com> ronk@cascade.ens.tek.com
(Ron Kirkpatrick;627-6707;50-454;LP=A;) writes:

| I haven't had a chance to look further yet and I realize that the "-n" flag
| is available on the expire command. I am just reporting how INN behaves as it
| comes 'out of the box'.

That one was my fault, and as Rich said, it will be fixed in the the first
patch (and as you kind of suggested here, but then didn't quite do in
the fix you posted, the problem is that expire wasn't being given the
-n flag in that situation ... if you want a better short term fix than
the one you posted before the real one appears, juct copy the line
that appends -n to EXPIREFLAGS down from the "-- throttling" case to the
:innwatch" case (both cases need it).

| I have run across a problem with the expire utility. My current test
| environment has a small news partition and filled up on Friday.

Incidentally, this is a very good idea - INN has more radical mindset
differences, in the way things work than any news change other than
(just perhaps) the swap from A to B news.   (The differences between
notes and news would have been bigger).  Setting up INN on some other
host while learning the way it operates is a sensible thing to do.

kre
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
From: cudep@warwick.ac.uk (Ian Dickinson)
Subject: Re: Injecting articles through NNTP Inews with C-news
Organization: Team Limpid's Meathead With Aptitude - Kunst und Wahnsinn
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 10:42:04 GMT

In article <1992Aug27.110902.12900@news.bham.ac.uk> simpsong@dns0.bham.ac.uk (Glyn Simpson) writes:
>Can give help myslef, as I've got the same problem. I'm trying to use the
>nntpmail stuff in the contrib directory. getting stuff from a group to a 
>maillist is easy, the other way is the problem.

mail2news (by Rich Salz I believe) does this quite happily.
archie should help you find it.

>Whilst i am at it, are there any places where i could, for example, mail
>a group via mail, eg:  mail  misc.test@somesite ?? a legitamate gateway
>would be nice..

I grew up believing that ucbvax was happy to do this, though I believe
that it is only intended for local use.  I believe there is a legitmate
public gateway elsewhere (utexas?).  Coould someone clarify this please?
For the uk.* groups, you can mail to uk-groupname@csv.warwick.ac.uk

Cheers,
-- 
\/ato - Ian Dickinson - NIC handle: ID17                   No-one is to molest
vato@csv.warwick.ac.uk  ...!mcsun!uknet!warwick!vato           the wombat when
/I=I/S=Dickinson/OU=CSV/O=Warwick/PRMD=UK.AC/ADMD= /C=GB/            anyone is
@c=GB@o=University of Warwick@ou=Computing Services@cn=Ian Dickinson  watching.
From: usbill@ustores.ustores.missouri.edu (Bill Canning)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: INN errors: setsockopt on non socket
Date: 1 Sep 1992 14:13:22 -0500
Organization: University of Missouri, Columbia
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: ustores.ustores.missouri.edu

INN seems to be working fine, except that my log files are being filled with
lines such as:


Sep  1 00:03:03 ustores unix: Sep  1 00:03:03 innd: localhost:15 cant setsockopt(SNDBUF) Protocol error

Sep  1 00:03:03 ustores unix: Sep  1 00:03:03 innd: localhost:15 cant setsockopt(RCVBUF) Protocol error

Sep  1 00:05:05 ustores unix: Sep  1 00:05:05 innd: ME cant nonblock 15 Socket operation on non-socket


Is this what's supposed to happen?  I don't think that it is, but I can't
figure out where the problem is.

Does anyone have any ideas?!

Thanks in advance,
-- 
Bill Canning			usbill@ustores.ustores.missouri.edu (Internet)
(314) 882-2131			muccgw.usbill@ssgate.missouri.edu (cc:Mail)
[314] 882=4699 (Fax)		CSPECWC@MIZZOU1 (BITNET)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
From: rsalz@osf.org (Rich Salz)
Subject: Re: INN vs. C-News expire
Organization: Open Software Foundation
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 17:28:18 GMT

I gotta believe they're comparable.  INN does a couple of things a
that might be a bit faster (reading the history file and comparing
dates), but the dominating factor in expire runtime is definitely the
unlink call.

INN's expire has an option to just write the names of articles to
an external file so you can do this:
	expire -z /safe/place/remove-me
	sort </safe/place/remove-me | ( cd /usr/spool/news ; exec xargs rm )
which is probably about as fast as you can get.\

The provided news.daily script which you should run daily out of cron
supports this construct.
	/r$
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
From: tal@Warren.MENTORG.COM (Tom Limoncelli)
Subject: INN vs. C-News expire
Organization: Mentor Graphics -- IC Group
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 04:31:34 GMT

Has anyone benchmarked INN's expire vs. C-News expire?
Are they basically the same?  How do they hit the
disks?

Curious, because I'm considering repartitioning
some disks and one thing I need to look at is reducing
load during expire.

Tom
-- 
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"Oh! I thought it was one of those useless demos of everything that
    a GUI builder could do." -Anonymous person watching demo of
         Solaris 2.0's graphical tool for managing NIS+
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
From: rsalz@osf.org (Rich Salz)
Subject: Re: Use channel of file for inn??
Organization: Open Software Foundation
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 21:22:27 GMT

In <NEAL.92Sep2133037@neal.ctd.comsat.com> neal@neal.ctd.comsat.com (Neal Becker) writes:
>I am a new news site.  I have 1 feed using nntp.  I am using inn-1.1.
>What should I use for newsfeeds?
Until you learn more and feel more comfortable with things like nntplink
and nntplink -i stdin and cron jobs that do "ctlinnd flush ''":
	Do a Tf,Wnm feed.  This writes a batchfile of lines
	containing filename messageid pairs.  Then use nntpsend (or
	send-nntp) run out of cron to flush the batchfile and call
	innxmit and send your articles.

>talks about channel type, but never really explains it.  The only
>example refers to "/usr/lib/news/bin/xmit-nic.near.net"  Is this a
>fictitious program?
The explanation seems fairly clear to me:
	White a site is fed by a channel or exploder, the "param"
	field names the process to start.  When the site is to
	receive an article, the process receives a line on its
	standard input telling it about the article.
If you have any modifications to doc/newsfeeds.5 please send them to
me.  You should also read doc/ctlinnd.8 for the description of what
the flush command does.

As for how to use channel feeds, look at the "watcher" example.  Or get
nntplink and read up on it.

There is no mention of an "xmit-nic.near.net" program.  There is a mention
of "nntpchan" which hasn't been finished yet -- mentioning it is a bug.
The next patch replaces this with a mention to "nntplink -i stdin".  The
example does mention an "nntpfanout" program but the comment in the
example says "hypothetical."

Hope this helps.
	/r$
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
From: erodrigu@dcc.uchile.cl (Eduardo Rodriguez)
Subject: Re: 340 Ok
Originator: erodrigu@tolten
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1992 13:24:05 GMT
Organization: Universidad de Chile, Depto. de Ciencias de la Computacion


In article <Btv8F3.K6G@nntp-sc.Intel.COM>, bhoughto@sedona.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
> What does it mean, the error return "340 OK"
> from an NNTP server?

From rfc977 "Network News Transfer Protocol":
(available via anonymous ftp sites)

3.10.  The POST command

3.10.1.  POST

   POST

   If posting is allowed, response code 340 is returned to indicate that
   the article to be posted should be sent.

edo...
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
From: karl@verdix.com (Karl A. Nyberg)
Subject: Bad file number error causing closed connections
Organization: Verdix Corp.
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 21:00:10 GMT

Is there were any way to figure out why a
machine that had been happily transferring news all of a suddent stopped?
Today it happenned again, and this time I thought to look in the nntplog
file, where I found

        Sep  1 20:20:14 localhost nntpxmit[17914]: grebyn.com xfer: Bad file number
        Sep  1 20:20:14 localhost nntpxmit[17914]: grebyn.com stats 1 offered 0 accepted 0 rejected 0 failed

The response to an interactive telnet grebyn.com 119 is:

        ...
        ihave 1992Sep1.110933.14430@grebyn.com
        Connection closed by foreign host.
        %

Rebooting and expiring didn't seem to solve the problem this time.

I'm running nntp 1.5.11 on a VAX/Ultrix machine (both ends).  We're not
getting our primary news feed from a Sun SPARC either, and the folks at
UUNET (where the feed originates) don't know why it might be doing this.

-- Karl --


-- 
Karl A. Nyberg				karl@grebyn.com
Post Office Box 497			Grebyn Corporation
Vienna, VA 22183-0497 USA		+1-703-281-2194
From: swlodin@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com (Steve Lodin)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: nntpxmit problem <message-id syntax error>
Date: 3 Sep 92 19:57:43 GMT
Organization: Delco Electronics Corp.
Originator: swlodin@kocrsw15


Help.  I am using nntpxmit for the first time.  The scenario is this:

Systems:  Sun 4/490 w/SunOS 4.1.2, Cnews (not performance), NNTP
1.5.11 on the server side and Sun SS2 w/SunOS 4.1.2 and the same news
software.  NetBlazer w/T2500 on the server side, Morningstar PPP on
the client side.  International dialup (Kokomo, IN and Luxembourgh).

For my local IP-connected feed, we are doing nntplink3.1beta with no
problem.  For this international dialup, I want to batch, so I suspect
nntpxmit is the solution.  Oh, I want my side to initiate the call all
the time.  Will nntpxmit pull as well as push news?  Anyways, while
trying to send news over, I get the following errors:

...
+ echo nntpsend: [13358] begin lxaesy01
nntpsend: [13358] begin lxaesy01
+ cd /usr/spool/news
+ time nntpxmit lxaesy01:/usr/spool/news/out.going/batch/lxaesy01.nntp
nntpxmit: delco/news/gm/202: message-id syntax error: 2689
nntpxmit: delco/news/gm/203: message-id syntax error: 3984
nntpxmit: delco/news/gm/204: message-id syntax error: 4042
nntpxmit: delco/admin/98: message-id syntax error: 7411
nntpxmit: lxaesy01 stats 0 offered 0 accepted 0 rejected 0 failed
nntpxmit: lxaesy01 xmit user 0.070 system 0.070 elapsed 42.067
       42.1 real         0.0 user         0.0 sys
+ echo nntpsend: [13358] end lxaesy01
nntpsend: [13358] end lxaesy01
...



I guess first of all, am I attacking the problem with the right
solution?  If not, what does batchmode NNTP?  If this is the right
solution, is this the "full pathname" problem or something else?


Thanks for any help!!


Steve
-- 
Steve Lodin	Internet: swlodin@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com  UUCP: deaes!swlodin

"The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components of a computer system are
those that aren't there."  --  Gordon Bell
From: rsalz@osf.org (Rich Salz)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: Another small (???) problem with INN 1.0
Date: 31 Aug 92 16:24:07 GMT
Reply-To: rsalz@uunet.uu.net
Organization: Open Software Foundation

In <36939@zephyr.ens.tek.com> Ron.C.Kirkpatrick@tek.com writes:
> I found that expire had NOT been able to do it's job:

>> Server throttled No space (spool) [innwatch:32] 9742 lt 10000 -- pressing on
>> Renumbering active file.
>> Must be running
>> Already throttled
>> Wrong reason
Fixed in the first patch will be posted in a day or two.
From: pcg@aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: would like to wild card access permissions by IP address
Date: 31 Aug 92 13:33:56 GMT
Reply-To: pcg@aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi)
Organization: Prifysgol Cymru, Aberystwyth


Fitzgerald> So far I have been telling people that if they want to use
Fitzgerald> trumpet then their PC must be registered in DNS but some
Fitzgerald> people can be quite persistent.

I tend to prefer a softer approach: something like "you can do what you
want, and I cannot do much about it, but we make it very easy for you to
register, consider that registering makes your life easier, not least
that we will stop pestering you about it", instead of "must be
registered".

The Internet and the PC have empowered end users, for good or bad, and
administrative domination is now both undesirable and untenable.

The carrot (service with demonstratable benefits) in this environment
looks rather more effective in most cases than the stick (you do what I
say or you don't get access) as a way to reduce anarchy and entropy, and
minimize waste of sysadmin effort. But some people are into it for the
thrill of lording over.

On 22 Aug 92 00:23:19 GMT, barr@pop.psu.edu (David Barr) commented:

barr> This is a good policy.  Stick with it.

Agreed (with the above shift in attitude), for many reasons, but not
this one:

barr> Giving unnamed computers posting privileges to Usenet is a Bad
barr> Thing.

Hahahaha! Usenet considered a monolithic BBS! Very funny. Even more
amusing:

barr> How are people supposed to reply?  How are we supposed to
barr> know who/where this article is coming from?

is a display of amazing innocence. Midsummer is past, but some people
continue to dream...


  The dream of the paranoid sysadmin or sysop: everything under control,
  lock and key, and I sit on it, and all privileges flow from me.  Beg
  and grovel, for I have the Power, the magical ring, that reveals to me
  all tricks, all true identities, all lies and magic. Nice dream, for
  some. Too bad that the Internet is not a dream.
--
Piercarlo Grandi                   | JNET: pcg@uk.ac.aber
Dept of CS, University of Wales    | UUCP: ...!mcsun!ukc!aber-cs!pcg
Penglais, Aberystwyth SY23 3BZ, UK | INET: pcg@aber.ac.uk
Newsgroups: news.software.nn
From: hmkirchh@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Hans-Joachim Kirchhoff)
Subject: NNTP retry count in nnmaster???
Organization: CSD., University of Erlangen
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 17:14:35 GMT
Keywords: NNTP

Hello all.

I've got a problem with my nnmaster accessing a NNTP server via a *very*
sluggish net. Every once in a while, the nnmaster loses connection with
our news-server. It then goes to sleep and tries again after 10min (default).
But 10 min later the connection is not any better. So the nnmaster sometimes
ends up trying for 12h or more to collect new articles.

The connection is pretty slow, packets can take 0,5 sec easily, sometimes
take up to 2 sec to get there, as measured with traceroute or ping.

So, is there a way to make nnmaster more forgiving, if the answer is late?
Usually, Log leaves me with lot's of "-1 error on LIST" comments.

Is there a retry counter or some timeout constant, one could change?
Help is much appreciated, I really don't think, I am up to delving into
nnmaster's depth, at least not without asking, if some of you might have
an idea.

Thanks a lot.

-Hajo
From: jeanpaul@duteca.et.tudelft.nl (J.P.M. van der Jagt)
Newsgroups: news.software.nn
Subject: Re: nnmaster dying due to NNTP bug: solution
Date: 29 Aug 92 23:40:59 GMT
Organization: Delft University of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering
Originator: jeanpaul@dutecad.et.tudelft.nl

markmc@sierra.com (Mark McWiggins) writes:
>[...]
>Turned out that the 'junk' directory had 4622 entries, which caused the
>NNTP daemon to crash & dump core. nnmaster interepreted this incorrectly
>and died. (I don't know if there's a way to interpret it correctly or
>not).
>[...]
>And to ask the news admin to clean up the directory.

You should ask the news admin to recompile the nntpd with
#define	MAX_ARTICLES	20480		/* Maximum number of articles/group */
That should take care of most of your (and his/her) problems.
B.t.w. if "junk" contains 4622 files, the active file on the newsserver is
likely to be very incomplete...
John-Paul.
-- 
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[] Email: jeanpaul@duteca.et.tudelft.nl [] Phone: 31-15-781366 [] unix unix []
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Newsgroups: news.software.nn
From: guckes@math.fu-berlin.de (Sven Guckes)
Subject: Selecting by name without affecting the kill file
Originator: guckes@medusa
Organization: Free University of Berlin, Germany
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 16:48:05 GMT

How do I select articles by name _without_ creating an entry
for the kill file ?
Newsgroups: news.software.nn
From: guckes@math.fu-berlin.de (Sven Guckes)
Subject: Reselecting last used folder name
Originator: guckes@medusa
Organization: Free University of Berlin, Germany
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 18:33:17 GMT

nn: 6.4.13 #13

How do I tell nn to prompt me with the last folder name that I have used
last for saving ?

This is what I usually do:
(1) I am reading "news.software.nn".
(2) I hit "s" to save an article to folder "+one".
(3) When I hit "s" again to save another article then nn prompts me with
    "news.software.nn" first.
(4) I now hit "^u" to clear this prompt; nn prompts me with "+one" again.

The Problem is in step (4): Hitting "^u" can be quite annoying at times.

Q: Is there a way to tell nn to NOT prompt me with the newsgroup's
   name but instead to use the last used folder name ?

Please email - I'll summarize.
Sven :)
Newsgroups: news.software.nn,news.software.readers,comp.unix.xenix.sco,biz.sco.general