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From: munnari!csc.anu.oz.au!gih900@UUNET.UU.NET (Geoff Huston)
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: RE: Different order for NEWSGROUPS display
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Date: 24 Nov 89 04:32:38 GMT
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Reply-To: Geoff Huston <munnari!csc.anu.oz.au!gih900@UUNET.UU.NET>
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>One thing I would like to see in the ANU-NEWS program would be to allow
>for a custom ordering of newsgroups.  That is to say, I'd like to have the
>local groups listed first, then all the national USENET groups by alphabetical
>order AFTER the local groups.  If a user wanted to edit his NEWSRC. file to
>make yet another custom ordering, that would be nice to.  Does ANU-NEWS
>(We're running v5.8A) support this now?  ( I didn't see any kind of reference
>to it in the manuals, and I tried to edit my NEWSRC. file, but it seemed to
>get re-sorted for me automatically.)
     
V5.9C will include the option
     
   SET PROFILE/RCORDER
     
which will display newsgroups according to the order in the newsrc file.
     
     
It will also include the option
     
   SET PROFILE/RCFILTER
     
which will only display those newsgroups mentioned in the newsrc file - all
other newsgroups are ignored.
     
>It would also be good to allow for this to be the default order for new
>users who don't yet have a NEWSRC. file.
     
V5.9 supports a system defined template NEWSRC file for first time users on the
local system to allow this to happen.
     
     
Geoff Huston