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From: karl@triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: use the news
Message-ID: <7768@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Date: 5 Mar 88 07:49:16 GMT
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In-reply-to: sullivan@vsi.UUCP's message of 5 Mar 88 01:42:42 GMT


sullivan@vsi.UUCP writes:
   Since students don't have much time, what kind of .newsrc are you giving
   them?  Say a student comes in, is kinda frazzled after having finished his
   program, and wants to read the news.  He (she, whatever) starts up the
   programs and is overwhelmed by the millions of newsgroups there are.

We give new accounts a prototype .newsrc which has them subscribed to
only the local newsgroups.  We depend on entropy for them to find out
about the rest of the newsgroups. :-)