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From: jonathan@cs.keele.ac.uk (Jonathan Knight)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: readnews skips news groups (FLAME)
Message-ID: <1119@kl-cs.UUCP>
Date: 21 Oct 89 16:02:39 GMT
References: <164@ora.UUCP>
Organization: University of Keele, England
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From article <164@ora.UUCP>, by ambar@ora.UUCP (Jean Marie Diaz):
> In article <491@ctycal.UUCP> ingoldsb@ctycal.UUCP (Terry Ingoldsby) writes:
> 
>>My problem is with readnews. My readnews does not do this.
>>It processes only the groups specified in the mandatory
>>subscription list ADMSUB.
> 
> Actually, as readnews (vnews too) is implemented in B News 2.11, you
> must call it with the -n all switch for it to read all the
> newsgroups enabled in .newsrc.

Arrgghh.

1)	Would Jean Marie Diaz go read the documentation for news.  It says
	that you should email replies to the questioner unless it is of
	netwide importance.  This isn't!  It's the sort of thing that people
	can find from their news admins or 'man newsrc'.

2)	YOU'RE WRONG.  Go type 'man newsrc' and read what it says.  Then put
	your 'options' line in your .newsrc file.

I don't object to Terry Ingoldsby asking questions that are in the manual pages
(although that is the most obvious place to look).  What I do object to
is people posting followups to questions that are in the manual pages AND
GETTING IT WRONG.  That means that everyone who knows your wrong will
have to followup your followup in order to stop your misinformation.

P.S.  I've already emailed Terry and explained what he needed to do,
      with examples to help and a list of programs which would start behaving
      properly.

Now I shall sit back and watch another 30 people followup all this.
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