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From: Ian Thompson <A2595042@infotrade.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Download all the newsgroups?
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1998 23:28:08 +0100
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Er,

A virus has just trashed my disk.

Looks like I will need to download the lot again.

Thanks for the advice.

I will give it a go once I am up a running proper.

Ian.

Majik wrote:

> Hi,
>
> > Is there any way to download a whole newsgroup and preserve the format of the original >newsgroup as it is displayed in my message browser?
> >
> > That is, a big single HTML file with all the headers at the top as highperlinks to the >messages below?
> The easy answer is no, your browser converts the news stuff to HTML on
> the fly... the only thing you could do is to have your own local news
> server, and have it download the newsgroup you want, then you could
> browse the local server.
>
> hope that answers your question.
>
> >
> > I an using Netscape Communicator 4.
> makes no difference
>
> Majik.
>
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