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From: esker@abaa.uucp (Lawrence Esker)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re:  Re: editing .newsrc
Summary: Why?  Easier ways to do things.
Message-ID: <956@neptune.UUCP>
Date: 11 Aug 89 18:15:41 GMT
References: <354@wet.UUCP> <2354@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu> <1736@frog.UUCP>
Reply-To: esker@neptune.UUCP (Lawrence Esker)
Organization: Allen Bradley
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In article <1736@frog.UUCP> jp@frog.UUCP (John Pimentel) writes:
>From personal experience I concur with the second writer. I've been able to
>rearrange the entire .newsrc file (I like the categories in alphabetical
>order). Occasionally, I remember reading a particular article and need to
>reread it, but don't know what the article number was, in this regard I
>re-edit that newsgroup to have no numbers, or 1-1, or 1...

Why bother editing .newsrc to do this?  A simpiler way to get back all old
messages while in a newsgroup is to type '1-$m'.  This marks every message
from the begining to the end as unread.

Personally, I only use sort on .newsrc to alphabatize the news groups.
Very seldom, I have edited to look for the name of an old newgroup that I
unsuscribed to, then change the ! to a : to resuscribe.  (Only when I could
not remember the exact name of the newsgroup.)

Other than this, everything else I've ever done can be done in rn.
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