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From: curry@bdrc.bd.com (Joan Curry)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: rn and-or active file question
Message-ID: <755@bdrc.bdrc.bd.com>
Date: 18 Jul 90 13:23:35 GMT
Organization: Becton Dickinson Rsrch Cntr, RTP, NC
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We use rn to read news. I want to keep users from being asked whether
they want to add new newsgroups to their .newsrc, when these are groups
our site doesn't even receive.

Seems like I could do this by keeping those groups out of my active file.
But I read somewhere in the documentation that my active file should
contain all the existing groups, whether we get them or not.

So what problems will surface if I disregard that and keep only the
groups we receive in the active file? Or is there a better way to
accomplish what I want?

Please respond by email. I'll post a summary. Thanks.
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