espo@bpa.UUCP (09/27/83)
How does one get to read info posted to the 'control' and 'junk' directories, besides having to do it manually ?? Does one have to be the administrative login for news ?? Thanks in advance, Bob Esposito...sb6!bpa!espo
darrell@drux3.UUCP (Darrell McIntosh) (09/28/83)
You may, of course, read the 'control' and 'junk' newsgroups manually using readnews with the -n option. You may also add them to your subscription list in your .newsrc file. You do not have to be an administrative login to do this. Darrell McIntosh, AT&T Information Systems Labatories, Denver (303) 538-3212, {ihnp4|hogpc}!drux3!darrell
mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton) (09/28/83)
control, junk, and test are three newsgroups that it's assumed almost nobody really wants to read. There is code in readnews and checknews to turn them off unless you explicitly ask for them. Thus, subscribing to "all" does not get you these three newsgroups, but subscribing to "all,control,junk,test" does. Mark