From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npois!cbosgd!mark Newsgroups: net.news Title: Re: Selection of Articles Article-I.D.: cbosgd.2406 Posted: Thu Jun 24 11:37:01 1982 Received: Mon Jun 28 00:54:33 1982 References: hao.255 The tree idea is a good long term idea, but we can't do it until newsgroups with names over 13 characters work. Your subscribe/unsubscribe problem was solved in 2.7 with the ! format in .newsrc. Get yourself a modern version of news and you don't have to ! out 9 zillion newsgroups in your options line, you can say options -n all and just change the : to ! in the newsgroup lines for newsgroups you don't want. Or use the unsubscribe command. You might also want to check and see how many dead groups are in your .newsrc !'ed out, and how many things you can collapse into patterns, for example, you can !all.sf-lovers instead of !net.sf-lovers !fa.sf-lovers. The policy on creation of new newsgroups is that if there is lots of interest (proven by discussion on net.news.group or otherwise) the group gets created. Having too many groups in the world at once is not a consideration - the public just won't stand for it. However, with the large number of groups we have now, the software does need some work to speed up performance. Mark