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From: malcolm@west44.UUCP (Malcolm Shute.)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Does the net think...?		(A slightly looney suggestion)
Message-ID: <388@west44.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 1-Nov-84 17:04:48 EST
Article-I.D.: west44.388
Posted: Thu Nov  1 17:04:48 1984
Date-Received: Sat, 3-Nov-84 08:01:38 EST
Organization: CS Dept., Westfield College, London
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Does the net think  that  there  is  a  need  for  the  following
facility in read-news programs:

Every so often (e.g. each time I call upon  my  chosen  read-news
program),  I  will  be  re-subscribed to a newsgroup from which I
have  previously  unsubscribed.  When  I  finally  come  to  that
newsgroup,  I can of course unsubscribe from it again. (The read-
news program would have to remember the group  to  which  it  did
this  last, so that it would do it to the next group in the cycle
on the next occassion).

So what's the point of it all?

When there is too much news to read (e.g. when  I  first  started
reading  the news, and there was a backlog of articles waiting to
be read), I reduced my reading time by unsubscribing  from  those
groups with which I thought I did not really want to bother. As a
consequence, I have never heard anything from those groups since.
It  would  be nice if the system occassionally gave me the chance
to reconsider my original decision.

Well how looney is this idea? Does it have anything  constructive
to  be  said  for  it?  Or  shall I return to read-only mode with
network news?