Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ginosko!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!apple!sun-barr!newstop!sun!bari!briang From: briang@bari.Sun.COM (Brian Gordon) Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions Subject: Re: A couple of probably commonly asked questions Keywords: misses the point completley. Message-ID: <125351@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Date: 27 Sep 89 15:40:14 GMT References: <4055@infocenter.UUCP> <5354@merlin.usc.edu> Sender: news@sun.Eng.Sun.COM Reply-To: briang@sun.UUCP (Brian Gordon) Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View Lines: 20 In article <5354@merlin.usc.edu> beall@nunki.usc.edu (Judith Beall) writes: >I just had a couple of questions here. First of all, how can I post to a >group without replying to another post? All I can figure out how to do is >an "r". Packaged with your newsreader is a newsposter, such as postnews. It does the "normal" postings, and is typically run from the shell-prompt level (i.e. not under the newsreader itself). > Also, if I "unsubscribed" to a newsgroup , >how can I "resubscribe" to them if I changed my mind? Yes. A typical user interface (e.g. in 'rn') is to "g ", which will ask you if you want to resubscribe. Of source, you can also edit the .newsrc where is it pretty obvious what character determines the difference between sunscribed and unsubscribed groups (viz. ':' vs '!'). +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ | Brian G. Gordon briang@Corp.Sun.COM (if you trust exotic mailers) | | ...!sun!bari!briang (if you route it yourself) | +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+