From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!trb
Newsgroups: net.news
Title: followup to floyd.508 re removing garbage from .newsrc
Article-I.D.: floyd.553
Posted: Thu Sep 16 22:04:34 1982
Received: Fri Sep 17 03:05:09 1982

I posted news saying that

$ grep -v " n" .newsrc

would print .newsrc with extraneous

net.jokes net.general: 1

lines removed.

It has been pointed out that if you have an options line which specifies
newsgroups:

options -n net.all !net.jokes

then the grep -v would delete that options line.
My options -n all !foo !bar caused me not to see this problem,
so make it:

$ grep -v "net.jokes net.general: 1" .newsrc

	Andy Tannenbaum   Bell Labs  Whippany, NJ   (201) 386-6491