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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Unsubscribed newsgroup message from Cnews
Message-ID: <1991Mar30.090050.4839@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 1991 09:00:50 GMT
References: <1991Mar23.231126.4840@cynic.wimsey.bc.ca> <1991Mar24.111417.2221@zoo.toronto.edu> <1991Mar28.203501.1043@nshore.ncoast.org>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <1991Mar28.203501.1043@nshore.ncoast.org> steve@nshore.ncoast.org (Stephen J. Walick) writes:
>| >Cnews regularly sends me mail stating that gnu.misc.discuss is on the
>| >"top ten list of unsubscribed newsgroups."....
>| 
>| What's happening is that the ME line in your sys file says you don't
>| want that group.
>
>Henry -- wouldn't this also exist if the < ~/active > file was lacking
>that particular "news group" in it??

No, then it gets reported as "unknown", not "unsubscribed".
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