Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!ucsd!ucbvax!ucsfcgl!cca.ucsf.edu!wet!epsilon From: epsilon@wet.UUCP (Eric P. Scott) Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions Subject: Re: New Newsgroup Queries Summary: common misconception Message-ID: <586@wet.UUCP> Date: 24 Sep 89 10:22:11 GMT References: <17528@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> Reply-To: epsilon@wet.UUCP (Eric P. Scott) Distribution: na Organization: Wetware Diversions, San Francisco Lines: 14 In article <17528@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> jmorton@euler.berkeley.edu (John Morton) writes: >Every few days when starting rn I am hit with a series of new >newsgroup queries, e.g. "rec.veeblefetzer Do you wish to add? [yn]" >There are over a hundred of these, mostly local newsgroups set up >for various classes. I have typed "n" to these same newsgroups >many times over the last year, but the query returns about once >a week to bug me. Sorry, but this is the way it's supposed to be. The only time you want to answer "n" is when the newsgroup is obviously bogus (which shouldn't happen if your news administrator is even semi- competent). Just unsubscribe to anything you don't want to read, and it won't bother you. -=EPS=-