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From: dcox@ssd.kodak.com (Don Cox (253-7121))
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions,news.software.b
Subject: Re: addgroup won't alert users of new group
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Date: 13 Nov 90 16:21:08 GMT
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In article <1990Nov13.032634.9289@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>
>Possibly because there are no articles in it yet?  Rn may consider
>that, not the creation of the group, to be the time when it should ask.

You're absolutely right!  After I posted an article to the newly formed
newsgroup I was asked if I wanted to subscribe to it (using rn with
patch #48) the next time I called up rn.  Thanks to those who e-mailed
me with the same answer.
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