pn (05/21/83)
Re readnews apparently going away and eating lots of CPU time: I've encountered this and think it is due to its stupidity. When you subscribe to a new newsgroup with high article numbers, it looks for an article to present to you by starting at 1 and going up in sequence. If you just added net.micro, jokes, misc, or unix-wizards, which are (on my system) up around 1500, it trys to open a file 1500 times. This does take a long time, but will eventually finish if you have the patience. This is just my guess and is not based on looking at the source code. I haven't seen any evidence to contradict my theory.