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From: urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs)
Subject: Re: NEWGROUPS
Message-ID: <&#_5i2.s1@smurf.sub.org>
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 91 18:05:49 GMT
References: <1991Mar14.074836.19931@watmath.waterloo.edu> <1991Mar15.002948.301@news.arc.nasa.gov>
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, FRG
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In news.software.nntp, article <1991Mar15.002948.301@news.arc.nasa.gov>,
  mcmahon@tgv.com writes:
< 
< The last time I looked at the RFC, I got the impression that NEWGROUPS was
< unreliable and that it was being "discouraged" in favor of comparing a current
< LIST command versus the "newsrc" file.  Is this no longer the case ?

Under C News, NEWGROUPS works. One reservation: It still doesn't look in the
active file whether the newsgroup in question still exists.

The value of NEWGROUPS is debatable because there's no equivalent OLDGROUPS
(for newsgroups that have vanished), and so you still have to LIST everything
to keep up-to-date.

On my news reader, I'll probably just do the equivalent of rn's "Y" command
and let the user unsubscribe later.

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