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From: steve@nshore.ncoast.org (Stephen J. Walick)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Unsubscribed newsgroup message from Cnews
Message-ID: <1991Mar28.203501.1043@nshore.ncoast.org>
Date: 28 Mar 91 20:35:01 GMT
References: <1991Mar23.231126.4840@cynic.wimsey.bc.ca> <1991Mar24.111417.2221@zoo.toronto.edu>
Reply-To: steve@nshore.ncoast.org (Stephen J. Walick)
Followup-To: news.software.b
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As quoted from <1991Mar24.111417.2221@zoo.toronto.edu> by henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer):

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| In article <1991Mar23.231126.4840@cynic.wimsey.bc.ca> curt@cynic.wimsey.bc.ca (Curt J. Sampson) writes:
| >Cnews regularly sends me mail stating that gnu.misc.discuss is on the
| >"top ten list of unsubscribed newsgroups."....
| 
| See the discussion of "subscriptions" in man/news.5 for details; sounds
| like you didn't look through the docs very hard. :-)
| 
| What's happening is that the ME line in your sys file says you don't
| want that group.
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Henry -- wouldn't this also exist if the < ~/active > file was lacking
that particular "news group" in it??

-- 

Stephen J. Walick, Asst Sysop of the  < XBBS >  program  at  NCoast.ORG
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