Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!leah!bingvaxu!cjoslyn
From: cjoslyn@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu (Cliff Joslyn)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: editing .newsrc
Message-ID: <2354@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu>
Date: 1 Aug 89 23:57:32 GMT
References: <354@wet.UUCP>
Reply-To: cjoslyn@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu.cc.binghamton.edu (Cliff Joslyn)
Distribution: na
Organization: SUNY Binghamton, NY
Lines: 13

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.
-- 
O---------------------------------------------------------------------->
| Cliff Joslyn, Cybernetician at Large
| Systems Science, SUNY Binghamton, cjoslyn@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu
V All the world is biscuit shaped. . .