Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!dsi!dan From: dan@dsi.COM (Dan Mick) Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions Subject: Re: A couple of probably commonly asked questions Message-ID: <247@dsi.COM> Date: 27 Sep 89 22:19:38 GMT References: <4055@infocenter.UUCP> <5354@merlin.usc.edu> Reply-To: dan@dsi.UUCP (Dan Mick) Organization: KFW Corporation, Newbury Park, CA Lines: 12 For rn: You can "followup" to an empty message by joining a group with no unreads (say 'g'), say 'y' when it asks if you want to join the group with 0 unreads, and do 'f' for followup. You'll get into your editor as though you were doing a followup to a message, but with no references. Try it in a local newsgroup to avoid public embarrassment. For re-subscribing to newsgroups you've unsubscribed from, I think 'g ' does the trick. You can also edit .newsrc directly, I suppose, and get rid of the '!' on the line with the newsgroup in question. (Don't have hard evidence that either of these work.)