Re: lynx-dev News-article listings

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 04:13:31AM +0200, Gisle Vanem wrote:
> How do I configure Lynx to display nicely formatted article listings
> like this:
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------
>    Articles in schule.netzwerk
>      * "Re: eine preiswerte =?ISO-8859-1?Q?L=F6sung?=" - Sebastian Bork
>      * "Re: eine preiswerte =?ISO-8859-1?Q?L=F6sung?=" - Sebastian Bork
>      * "Re: eine preiswerte =?ISO-8859-1?Q?L=F6sung?=" - Andreas
>        Rittershofer

I'm not sure - the first is the way I'm seeing it.  (I have a couple of
test-urls that I can look at).  But I don't look at the nntp stuff often.
 
> ----------------------------------------------------
> 
> and not like this messy ID-list (as the majority are shown):
> ----------------------------------------------------
>                     comp.os.msdos.djgpp, Articles 7584-7613
> 
>    (Earlier articles...)
> 
>    There are about 150 articles currently available in
>    comp.os.msdos.djgpp, IDs as follows:
>    <address@hidden>
>    <address@hidden>
>    <address@hidden>
>    <address@hidden>
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------
> 
> BTW.
> I only get 112 groups in the GROUP listing, whilst my server
> have thousands. Maybe Lynx should use "LIST NEWSGROUPS"
> and not the "XGTITLE" command. How can I force it to do that?

reading the code, it does do that - under some conditions (depends on
the response from the server).  No one's changed the nntp support for
some time though.

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