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From: epsilon@wet.UUCP (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: editing .newsrc
Message-ID: <354@wet.UUCP>
Date: 1 Aug 89 11:19:57 GMT
Reply-To: epsilon@wet.UUCP (Eric P. Scott)
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Organization: Wetware Diversions Public Access UNIX, San Francisco
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About the only "safe" thing you can do by editing .newsrc is
change : to ! or vice versa.  If want to do something more
interesting and you use rn, I recommend deleting the .rnlast and
.rnsoft files.  Under certain (unusual) circumstances I've seen
rn get hopelessly confused and remove .newsrc AND .oldnewsrc.

If your system runs arbitron, your news administrator might not
appreciate you tampering with .newsrc if you don't know what
you're doing--it can screw up the statistics gathering.

					-=EPS=-