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From: jp@frog.UUCP (John Pimentel)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re:  Re: editing .newsrc
Message-ID: <1736@frog.UUCP>
Date: 4 Aug 89 00:22:00 GMT
References: <354@wet.UUCP> <2354@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu>
Reply-To: jp@frog.UUCP (John Pimentel)
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In article <2354@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu> cjoslyn@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu.cc.binghamton.edu (Cliff Joslyn) writes:
>In article <354@wet.UUCP> epsilon@wet.UUCP (Eric P. Scott) writes:
>>About the only "safe" thing you can do by editing .newsrc is
>>change : to ! or vice versa.  
>
>I beg to differ.  I frequently change the order of .newsrc so that the
>groups I am most interested in get up first, change the numbers after
>the : in order to see articles that I should have already seen, etc.  I
>always make a copy of .newsrc to restore if I mung it up.

From personal experience I concur with the second writer. I've been able to
rearrange the entire .newsrc file (I like the categories in alphabetical
order). Occasionally, I remember reading a particular article and need to
reread it, but don't know what the article number was, in this regard I
re-edit that newsgroup to have no numbers, or 1-1, or 1. However, in the
beginning when I was but a wee pup I made a big goof and had ` :! ',
instead of ` : ' or ` ! ' and nearly lost a majority of the list. Oh 
well live and learn.

================John Pimentel (508) 626-1000=================