trb (09/15/82)
A few weeks ago, someone kludged together a bogus news article (presumably without using inews) to the nonexistent newsgroup "net.jokes net.general" and it seems that readnews (2.9) doesn't treat it rationally. I had 135 lines in my .newsrc which all read: net.jokes net.general: 1 All netnews administrators should remove the group "net.jokes net.general" from their active files. IMPORTANT NOTE: I am not talking about the two groups net.jokes and net.general. I am talking about a single newsgroup whose name contains a space as one of the characters in its name: "net.jokes net.general." Do not delete the valid groups net.jokes or net.general. Many people's .newsrc files will have several lines which contain the bogus notation mentioned above. When I was running netnews with 135 of these bogus lines, it was wasting about two cpu seconds per run looking for news items in these groups. Use the following commands to remove these lines: $ cd $ grep -v " n" .newsrc > $$ $ mv $$ .newsrc $ Andy Tannenbaum Bell Labs Whippany, NJ (201) 386-6491