Path: utzoo!utstat!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!umich!sharkey!tygra!jpp From: jpp@tygra.ddmi.com (John Palmer) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: RN bothering users about groups "not in .newsrc" Message-ID: <506@tygra.ddmi.com> Date: 14 Nov 90 14:54:41 GMT Organization: CAT-TALK Conferencing Network, Detroit, MI Lines: 31 We are running the version of rn that came with BNEWS 2.11. We got this stuff pre-compiled from SCO for our Xenix 2.3.2 system. One annoying problem often occurs after a newgroup message adds a group to the end of the active file. If the group is later removed then any user who has not used rn since the add/delete sequence will be asked about EVERY unsubscribed group. (ie: for each group that he is not subscribed to, he will be asked if he wants to add it to his newsrc file). I know that whats probably happening is that rn checks the modification date on /usr/lib/news/active and compares that with the user's .newsrc and if the dates are different, it proceeds to check for new groups. Why it goes after the unsubscribed groups is a mystery. If new groups have been added since the user's last session and have NOT been deleted, then it only prompts the user about those groups. Does anyone know of a friendlier newsreader that has been ported to Xenix?? Thanks. Oh - by the way - forget getting news patches from UUNET. They've cut off their 800 number. The only way to access their system via anonymous uucp is to dial a 900 number. I didn't think they'd stoop so low, but thats life. Please respond via e-mail and I'll summarize the responses. -- = CAT-TALK Conferencing Network, Prototype Computer Conferencing System = - 1-313-343-0800, 300/1200/2400/9600 baud, 8/N/1. New users use 'new' - = as a login id. E-Mail Address: jpp@ddmi.com = - <<>>> -