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From: del@thrush.mlb.semi.harris.com (Don Lewis)
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Subject: Re: RN bothering users about groups "not in .newsrc"
Message-ID: <1990Nov15.052550.9434@mlb.semi.harris.com>
Date: 15 Nov 90 05:25:50 GMT
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In article <1990Nov15.035246.9805@ccu.umanitoba.ca> mills@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Gary Mills) writes:
>I always thought it was a bit silly to ask you `y' or `n', and if you
>answered `n', to ask you again next time.

I'm pretty sure one of the more recent patches to rn changed this behavior.
If you answer no, it adds the group to your .newsrc, but puts a `!' after
the name instead of `:' so that you are not subscribed.  I'm pretty sure
this was fixed before I switched to trn, which definitely behaves this
way.
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