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From: wcs@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (Bill Stewart 201-949-0705 ho95c.att.com!wcs)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: New Newsgroup Queries
Message-ID: <4470@cbnewsh.ATT.COM>
Date: 3 Oct 89 20:09:53 GMT
References: <3599@cbnewsc.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: wcs@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (Bill Stewart 201-949-0705 ho95c.att.com!wcs)
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In article <3599@cbnewsc.ATT.COM> msc@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (michael.s.cross,sk,) writes:
]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".
	Depending on your reading patterns, this may happen to you,
	but there are several easy workarounds:
	1) Use emacs instead of vi :-).
	2) Edit your .newsrc more frequently, so the lines don't get too long.
	3) Use sed to trim long lines:
		sed 's/! 1.....*[,-]/! 1-/' .newsrc >.newsrc.new


]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.
	(This is a local problem)
	Make sure you don't have a lot of .article.* and letter.*
	files around using up space (do ls -a to see them.)
	One problem is that each directory and KILL file uses up at
	least one block - 500 KILL files would require at least 1000
	blocks total space, if you really read that many newsgroups.
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