Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site west44.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!mcvax!ukc!west44!malcolm 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 Lines: 24 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?