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From: dman@homxa.UUCP (#D.ANDERSON)
Newsgroups: net.news,net.news.group
Subject: About nuking newsgroups:
Message-ID: <210@homxa.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 23-May-84 23:44:35 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 23 23:44:35 1984
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 Adam > A problem with removing lines from .newsrc when groups go to
      > tiredgroups and then putting them back is that all sense of
      > unsubscription (via the U command) is lost for those groups,
      > and the user will have to reunsubscribe to each group every
      > time it goes to and comes from tiredgroups.

Well, if we're going to suggest a tiredgroups, we might as well suggest
a .newstr (tired .newsrc) file to keep track of tired group subscription
status. And the best thing - it can be automatic. As long as things in
the tired lists are kept sorted (simple and fast, like alphabetic),
everything should stay fairly fast.

 Adam > There is almost always a suitable place to test-run a new
      > discussion. If not, that's what net.misc is for.

Agreed, but seriously, does everyone who'd participate in a newsgroup
read net.misc? If something "new" comes up, I'd like to give it a new
"U" if I decide not to read it. New groups should spring up naturally,
at least in the absence of discussion-oriented news. I don't mind typing
a "U", but I'd hate to have to read alot of excess just to find new topics.

By the way, there is NO reason we have to limit ourselves to 512 groups.
Sure, its a nice round power of 2, but if we need more groups, we can
certainly accomodate them. Processes are only getting bigger these days
anyway. Using up additional memory to keep more groups when running
checknews and readnews shouldn't scare anyone except those with systems
without paging and small memories.

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