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From: oliver@athena.mit.edu (James D. Oliver III)
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Subject: Comments in RNINT files
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Date: 28 Aug 89 11:29:53 GMT
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A few days ago someone posted a list of useful macros in news.misc.  I had
been sort of a low-level (but high-volume) user of USENET for the past five
months, and when I saw the nice things that you could do with macros, it
inspired me to learn more about rn in the past day than I had over the
past five months.

One problem that took me a while to figure out is that when I included
comment (i.e. "#") lines in the RNINIT file, it caused the reader to ask me
if I wanted to read every newsgroup in my .newsrc file, even if there were
no articles there.  This is fixed when I remove the comment lines, but I'd
like to have some way of noting in the RNINT file what is going on.  Any
suggestions?
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