Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!att!cbnewsc!msc From: msc@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (michael.s.cross) Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions Subject: Re: New Newsgroup Queries Summary: HUGE .newsrc file Message-ID: <3599@cbnewsc.ATT.COM> Date: 2 Oct 89 17:56:32 GMT References: <1989Sep25.213655.21377@eci386.uucp> Reply-To: msc@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (michael.s.cross,sk,) Distribution: na Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 28 In article <1989Sep25.213655.21377@eci386.uucp> clewis@eci386.UUCP (Chris Lewis) writes: >Ideally, rn should automatically insert *all* new newsgroups in .newsrc, and >then ask if you wish to subscribe (ala ":" or "!" in .newsrc). > >Until rn is fixed... *always* reply "y", and unsubscribe if you ever get >prompted to read the newsgroup. S'not hard for the first part - hit space >twice. The second? Just say "u". This, of course, leaves you with a huge .newsrc file (which can't be edited). Our version of 'rn' still marks crossposted articles read, even if the other newsgroup is unsubscribed to. (ex: article in rec.music.misc is read. The article was crossposted to alt.rock-n-roll, so that number is marked as read. Unfortunatly, I unsubscribed to alt.rock-n-roll, but 'rn' doesn't look to see if there is a ":" or a "!" on the newsgroup line.) After about a week of marking one article here, another article there, the line gets over 512 characters long, and our 'vi' editor barfs because of "line too long". Another problem with leaving all the lines in the .newsrc file appears when you have a News-server machine and are limited to 300 blocks of storage ... one or two KILL files and you're out of room. Mike (is someone collecting 'rn' bugs???) -- Michael S. Cross (msc@ihc.att.com) (312)-982-2018 AT&T Bell Laboratories, 5555 Touhy Ave., Skokie, IL 60077 ________________________To Live is to risk Dying______________________________