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From: kwthomas@nsslsun.gcn.uoknor.edu (Kevin W. Thomas)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: users are not notified of new local newsgroups
Message-ID: <1990Nov16.031316.23286@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu>
Date: 16 Nov 90 03:13:16 GMT
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In article <1990Nov14.200204.25707@engin.umich.edu> stealth@caen.engin.umich.edu (Mike Pelletier) writes:
>The problem lies with rn's mechanism for determining whether a newsgroup
>is new or not.  From what I can figure out, it seems to look to see if 
>one article has been posted to it, and if it has, then it offers it to
>you.  If nothing has been posted or if dozens of articles have been posted,
>it won't ask you.  With NNTP, it would be a snap to use the newgroups
>command, but I think rn has more to worry about than that...

That is a bug with the "rrn" part of "rn".  The bug is fixed in "rn"
patch 48, posted within the past week.  With the new patch, users may all
of a sudden be notified of hundreds of "new" newsgroups.  The average at
my site was about 200 "new" groups.

	== kwthomas ==