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From: jmorton@euler.Berkeley.EDU (John Morton)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: New Newsgroup Queries
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Date: 22 Sep 89 17:16:27 GMT
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Every few days when starting rn I am hit with a series of new
newsgroup queries, e.g. "rec.veeblefetzer Do you wish to add? [yn]"
There are over a hundred of these, mostly local newsgroups set up
for various classes.  I have typed "n" to these same newsgroups
many times over the last year, but the query returns about once
a week to bug me.  

I am a frequent newsreader, so I know that rn is not just putting
me up to date intelligently.

One person has suggested saying "y" to them all, putting them at
the end of my .newsrc, then unsubscribing.  This would seem
tedious and unnecessary.

The unwanted query occurs more or less at random.  It is somewhat
more likely to happen if I have been gone awhile, but sometimes
occurs 2 or 3 logins in a row.

Ideas?


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