malcolm@west44.UUCP (Malcolm Shute.) (11/02/84)
Does the net think that there is a need for the following facility in read-news programs: Every so often (e.g. each time I call upon my chosen read-news program), I will be re-subscribed to a newsgroup from which I have previously unsubscribed. When I finally come to that newsgroup, I can of course unsubscribe from it again. (The read- news program would have to remember the group to which it did this last, so that it would do it to the next group in the cycle on the next occassion). So what's the point of it all? When there is too much news to read (e.g. when I first started reading the news, and there was a backlog of articles waiting to be read), I reduced my reading time by unsubscribing from those groups with which I thought I did not really want to bother. As a consequence, I have never heard anything from those groups since. It would be nice if the system occassionally gave me the chance to reconsider my original decision. Well how looney is this idea? Does it have anything constructive to be said for it? Or shall I return to read-only mode with network news?
barmar@mit-eddie.UUCP (Barry Margolin) (11/03/84)
This will do it: sed "s/!/:/" <~/.newsrc >~/.newsrc.new rm ~/.newsrc; mv ~/.newsrc.new ~/.newsrc -- Barry Margolin ARPA: barmar@MIT-Multics UUCP: ..!genrad!mit-eddie!barmar
julian@deepthot.UUCP (Julian Davies) (11/04/84)
No it isn't looney. I periodically have to go through .newsrc and change "!"s into ":"s so I can look at things. though actually I almost invariably quickly unsubscribe again, and the software here searches for the next available article in such a ng the long way. The alternative of using -x and a specific -n in the readnews command has the disadvantage of not remembering what you do read in that session, nor take account of any articles still on disk that you have read already. btw, what is "-x" useful for apart from this? Julian Davies deepthot!julian
dave@utcsrgv.UUCP (Dave Sherman) (11/08/84)
In article <410@deepthot.UUCP> julian@deepthot.UUCP (Julian Davies) writes: || No it isn't looney. I periodically have to go through .newsrc and || change "!"s into ":"s so I can look at things. though actually I || almost invariably quickly unsubscribe again, and the software here || searches for the next available article in such a ng the long way. If you use "rn", it becomes easy to resubscribe without having to edit your .newsrc by hand - just type 'g' followed by the newsgroup you want. || The alternative of using -x and a specific -n in the readnews || command has the disadvantage of not remembering what you do read in || that session, nor take account of any articles still on disk that you || have read already. btw, what is "-x" useful for apart from this? I use it to reread an article I know I've seen before, which is recent (with the -r flag as well for reverse order). Also, if I want to transmit and article to another site (e.g., an important locally-generated article that I'd like to send straight to ihnp4), I use "readnews -xrn" and use readnews' X command. Incidentally, rn has some great functionality that many users may not have explored. Suppose you want to go back and reread all articles posted recently by Martillo in net.religion.jewish. You simply type "?Martillo?hrm" and rn will mark as unread (m) all previously-read (r) articles with "Martillo" anywhere in the header (h). (Actually, this also gives you articles whose subject lines refer to Martillo, but you get the idea.) And if you want to go back and reread all postings on Batman in net.misc, you type "?Batman?rm". Dave Sherman Toronto -- { allegra cornell decvax ihnp4 linus utzoo }!utcsrgv!dave
dan@rna.UUCP (11/23/84)
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