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From: leadley@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Scott Leadley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: rn doesn't have to complain [was Re: NNTP/RRN help needed]
Keywords: Software
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Date: 17 Aug 89 19:46:25 GMT
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X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 99, message 11 of 11

In article <639@brazos.Rice.edu> you write:
>Oh yes, two other suggestions. 
>Second, you may also want to turn off automatic new newsgroup checking [in rn]
>at this time, in common.h:
>
>/*define FINDNEWNG      /* check for new newsgroups on startup */
>#undef  FINDNEWNG       /* Turn this horrible "feature" off */
>
>
>This annoying "feature" harrasses users with a long list of unavoidable
>requests to add the same nonexistent groups every week or so

Actually, rn will ask you about adding new groups to your .newsrc file
every time that a new group is added.  If you have newsgroups in your
active file that don't have directories yet, rn will ask whether you want
to add them EVERY time.

For some reason (looks like misconfiguration when it was installed), 2.11
B inews at our site waits until the first article is recieved to create
the directory.  Since inews and rn have different interpretations of what
a missing directory means, it inconveniences the fewest people hack inews
or to manually create the directory when the the newsgroup is created.  --


				Scott Leadley - leadley@cc.rochester.edu