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List All NewsgroupsYou can trick most news readers into providing a linear listing of all accessible newsgroups, whether they provide the feature built-in to the program or not. Some news readers always sort newsgroups into hierarchies when they display them, so that you have to open each hierarchy like an indented folder list to see the individual groups themselves, so you can't get a simple sequential listing of all groups. For example, you may want to get a simple linear listing of all of the comp.* groups so that you can scan the whole hierarchy, and don't want to have to open each sub-hierarchy one-by-one. With these kinds of news readers you can often use the following trick to get a linear listing anyway:
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