Path: utzoo!attcan!telly!eci386!clewis
From: clewis@eci386.uucp (Chris Lewis)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: New Newsgroup Queries
Message-ID: <1989Sep25.213655.21377@eci386.uucp>
Date: 25 Sep 89 21:36:55 GMT
References: <17528@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: clewis@eci386.UUCP (Chris Lewis)
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Organization: R. H. Lathwell Associates: Elegant Communications, Inc.
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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.  

One of the minor nits with rn is the fact that "Do you wish to add?"
questions isn't "subscribing to a newsgroup", but is rather "should it 
be mentioned in .newsrc?"  Rn simply compares the size of the active file
to what it used to be, and if it's changed, starts looking groups in .newsrc
that aren't in active and vice-versa.

Hence, if you reply "n" to the "Do you wish to add?" message, the newsgroup
will not be put in your .newsrc, but the very next time a new newsgroup comes
along causing rn to search again, you will be asked again for the same 
newsgroup plus the one that triggered the search *this* time.

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".
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