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From: ingoldsb@ctycal.UUCP (Terry Ingoldsby)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: readnews skips news groups
Message-ID: <491@ctycal.UUCP>
Date: 18 Oct 89 23:27:23 GMT
Organization: The City of Calgary, Ab
Lines: 21
Keywords: netnews 2.11, sysman puzzled

I am no expert at the netnews software, but I have a problem that I
haven't figured out at first glance and was hoping someone could
steer me to the answer *without* my having to become familiar with
the netnews source code.

My problem is with readnews.  Normally, invoking `readnews' should
cause all the newsgroups that are enabled in the user's .newsrc file
to be read.  My readnews does not do this.  It processes only the
groups specified in the mandatory subscription list ADMSUB.  (At
least I think that is what it is doing).  What is it that I don't
understand?  Doing a    readnews -n comp     or whatever does work.

If it matters, I am running news on an Intergraph Clipper w/s
(System V 3.1).

Thanks for any help.

-- 
  Terry Ingoldsby                       ctycal!ingoldsb@calgary.UUCP
  Land Information Systems                           or
  The City of Calgary         ...{alberta,ubc-cs,utai}!calgary!ctycal!ingoldsb