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From: julian@deepthot.UUCP (Julian Davies)
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Subject: Re: Does the net think...?		(A slightly looney suggestion)
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Date: Sun, 4-Nov-84 13:47:49 EST
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Posted: Sun Nov  4 13:47:49 1984
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No it isn't looney. I periodically have to go through  .newsrc  and
change "!"s into ":"s so I can look at things.  though actually I
almost invariably quickly unsubscribe again, and the software here
searches for the next available article in such a ng the long way.
  The alternative of using -x and a specific -n in the readnews
command has the disadvantage of not remembering what you do read in
that session, nor take account of any articles still on disk that you
have read already.  btw, what is "-x" useful for apart from this?
		Julian Davies
		deepthot!julian