Au1100a.112 net.general utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!mhtsa!eagle!ihnss!houxi!u1100a!rick Fri Feb 5 10:13:56 1982 Re: Long .newsrc file One can accomplish the same thing with "readnews -p -n [groups you want to get rid of] > /dev/null" but you still have to "N" thru them until you do the above, unless you have them "!"ed out in your options line.