NewsRog: Tips & Techniques

	Tips & Techniques
Performance Tips	Here are some tips on configuring your system to obtain the best possible performance from NewsRog. Modem compression If you connect to an ISP using a modem, turn on modem compression and use the maximum possible serial speed. Fast Amigas can support serial speeds up to 115200 bps. Since items such as newsgroup headers are easily compressed, this can often lead to transfers much faster than the external connection speed of your modem. Disk Cache NewsRog reads and writes header cache files for various newsgroups. Using a disk cache program that supports write-ahead can immensely improve the speed of entering and exiting newsgroups. HeaderMatch Filter Using static strings instead of patterns in the HeaderMatch filter can improve the speed of matching manyfold.
Filter Tips	These tips can help you set up useful selection filters. Local vs. global filters If a filter is to be used in more than one place, it is usually best to define it once in the configuration area and use a group pattern, if required, to control the set of groups to which the filter should apply. This way, the filter only needs to be changed once instead of in multiple locations. Making a filter to show all threads you've posted to Creating different selection filters to show different views of a newsgroup is a very powerful and useful technique. For example, try defining a MatchThread filter, add setting the sub-filter to a HeaderMatch on your email address. With a few mouseclicks, you can now toggle on this filter from the group reader window and show only those threads in which you have been participating. This makes it easy to temporarily ignore all the other threads in the group. Killing all followups to a particular author. Most newsreaders provide you the ability to kill articles based on the author. This is useful to ignore authors who post nothing but posts designed to annoy or disrupt the group. But with NewsRog you can go a step futher: you can ignore all followups to such a person as well, no matter who posted the followup. This lets you easily remove large flame wars started by a few obnoxious individuals. Try using a MatchFollowup filter containing a HeaderMatch filter that matches the email addresses of the offending persons. Browsing posts by your favorite authors You might define a HeaderMatch filter listing various authors who you have determined to be worthwhile to read, perhaps including it in a MatchFollowup filter.

Tips & Techniques

Performance Tips

Here are some tips on configuring your system to obtain the best possible performance from NewsRog.

Modem compression
If you connect to an ISP using a modem, turn on modem compression and use the maximum possible serial speed. Fast Amigas can support serial speeds up to 115200 bps. Since items such as newsgroup headers are easily compressed, this can often lead to transfers much faster than the external connection speed of your modem.
Disk Cache
NewsRog reads and writes header cache files for various newsgroups. Using a disk cache program that supports write-ahead can immensely improve the speed of entering and exiting newsgroups.
HeaderMatch Filter
Using static strings instead of patterns in the HeaderMatch filter can improve the speed of matching manyfold.

Filter Tips

These tips can help you set up useful selection filters.

Local vs. global filters
If a filter is to be used in more than one place, it is usually best to define it once in the configuration area and use a group pattern, if required, to control the set of groups to which the filter should apply. This way, the filter only needs to be changed once instead of in multiple locations.
Making a filter to show all threads you've posted to
Creating different selection filters to show different views of a newsgroup is a very powerful and useful technique. For example, try defining a MatchThread filter, add setting the sub-filter to a HeaderMatch on your email address. With a few mouseclicks, you can now toggle on this filter from the group reader window and show only those threads in which you have been participating. This makes it easy to temporarily ignore all the other threads in the group.
Killing all followups to a particular author.
Most newsreaders provide you the ability to kill articles based on the author. This is useful to ignore authors who post nothing but posts designed to annoy or disrupt the group. But with NewsRog you can go a step futher: you can ignore all followups to such a person as well, no matter who posted the followup. This lets you easily remove large flame wars started by a few obnoxious individuals. Try using a MatchFollowup filter containing a HeaderMatch filter that matches the email addresses of the offending persons.
Browsing posts by your favorite authors
You might define a HeaderMatch filter listing various authors who you have determined to be worthwhile to read, perhaps including it in a MatchFollowup filter.