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From: rees@apollo.UUCP
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: 2.11 readnews bug or feature?
Message-ID: <3376350a.982f@apollo.uucp>
Date: Wed, 4-Mar-87 08:47:00 EST
Article-I.D.: apollo.3376350a.982f
Posted: Wed Mar  4 08:47:00 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 6-Mar-87 06:56:32 EST
Organization: Apollo Computer, Chelmsford, Mass.
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In the old days, if I had this line in my .newsrc file:

options -n all,!rec.sport

I would never see any of the rec.sport groups, and they wouldn't get added
to my newsrc file.

But now, with 2.11, the lines get added to my newsrc, with a ':', meaning
subscribed-to.  Then, when I run rn, I see those groups.

Is this a bug or a feature?  Maybe my mistake is trying to mix readnews
with rn.  If readnews is going to add those lines to my newsrc, shouldn't
it put them in with a '!'?