--- snownews-1.5.12/doc/man/snownews.1.in.orig 2009-10-05 21:28:01.000000000 -0400 +++ snownews-1.5.12/doc/man/snownews.1.in 2009-10-05 21:29:18.000000000 -0400 @@ -184,19 +184,6 @@ variable "http_proxy". Snownews expects .I http://your_proxy.org:PORT/ (http://proxy.your_isp.com:8080/). .P -.B Automatic update checking -.P -Once a week the program will automatically check for a new version when it exits. -It will request a file named "version" from my webserver and compare -the returned value with the local program version. If they differ it -notifies the user of a new version. It is done on exit to be least -annoying I hope. This way you can easily ignore it if you don't want -to upgrade for some reason or can't, because you're using a package -that came with your distribution, etc. To disable this check, put the value --1 into the file ~/.snownews/updatecheck. Snownews will -not transfer anything to my server. It will just download a file -containing the version number and compare it locally. -.P .B Plugins .P Snownews has a plugin architecture that allows to load feeds from external