Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tank!ncar!mailrus!cwjcc!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu!karl From: karl@triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) Newsgroups: news.misc Subject: Re: "mod.announce.newusers"--where is it? Message-ID: Date: 21 Nov 88 18:20:52 GMT References: <19170@ism780c.isc.com> <19452@ism780c.isc.com> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Distribution: news.misc Organization: OSU Lines: 28 In-reply-to: dana@ism780c.isc.com's message of 18 Nov 88 03:21:42 GMT dana@ism780c.isc.com (Dana Jordan) writes: I still don't know, however, how to get around the fact that, when I (originally) tried to read "news.announce.newusers"the system responded by saying there were 0 files unread. I (stubbornly) tried to read them anyway (since nothing else had worked), but of course there were no articles to read. The netiquette documents are re-posted on a monthly basis. Wait a week or so, they'll show up by then. Make sure you stay subscribed to news.announce.newusers. All this begs the question, then (at least for rn novices like me), as to how you regain access to an article that is intended to be read by future users. Is there no way to "grab" it again, even if I've already "read" it? When all else fails: cd /usr/spool/news/news/announce/newusers more * But more generally, rn allows you to jump to arbitrary articles (if they're still in-spool) via either the `j' command or via marking the relevant articles as `unread,' so that they will be re-offered to you. Again, this depends on them still being around, which they might not be. And again, the world won't fall apart if they're not, because they'll come back next month. --Karl