[news.software.b] 2.11 readnews bug or feature?

rees@apollo.UUCP (03/04/87)

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 '!'?