From: utzoo!henry
Newsgroups: hacknews
Title: newuser handles news better 
Article-I.D.: utzoo.2372
Posted: Thu Aug 12 20:42:18 1982
Received: Thu Aug 12 20:42:18 1982

At David's suggestion, fixed newuser(1) so that new users no longer get
barraged with old news items in 'general'.  Also had it supply an explicit
"options -n general" line in the .newsrc, which simplifies telling people
how to alter their subscription list.