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From: wls@astrovax.UUCP (William L. Sebok)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: Control of presentation sequence
Message-ID: <294@astrovax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 12-Apr-84 01:10:56 EST
Article-I.D.: astrovax.294
Posted: Thu Apr 12 01:10:56 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 13-Apr-84 07:49:27 EST
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Organization: Princeton Univ. Astrophysics
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> Is there a way, perhaps by manipulating the .newsrc file, that
> I can control the sequence the newsgroups are shown when I enter
> simply "readnews"? Or is that set by the system administrators
> for the whole system by the sequence of the system-level files?

It is set by the system administrators for the whole system by the sequence
the newsgroups appear in the news "active" file.  This file may be found
at possibly one or more of the following:  ~news/active, /usr/lib/news/active,
or /usr/new/lib/news/active.
  Hopefully, maybe some future version of news will have some user settable
way of controlling one's own newsgroup order.  Anybody out there working on
this?
-- 
Bill Sebok			Princeton University, Astrophysics
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