From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!vax135!ariel!hou5f!npois!cbosgd!mark
Newsgroups: net.sources
Title: Re: .newsrc update program
Article-I.D.: cbosgd.3417
Posted: Wed Apr 13 14:06:05 1983
Received: Sun Apr 17 08:16:56 1983
References: <120@mhuxj.UUCP>

You can indeed do
	readnews -p > /dev/null
but it will take a while.  You certainly want to & it, and it will hog a lot
of system resources copying all that news to nowhere.

2.10 does a check to see if stdout is /dev/null and doesn't bother to print
the news in that case.  It just records it as read.  This is much faster but
still worth &'ing.