tanner@cerritos.edu (12/07/89)
When users run News for the first time, they are registered for all newsgroups. The same is true for existing News readers and newly created newsgroups. I wanted to tailor News so that new users would be registered in a certain set of local newsgroups and no others. This can be done by creating NEWS_MANAGER:NEWSRC.TEMPLATE with NEWSRC. type entries for the registered newsgroups. You also need to change a couple of lines in News to not register new newsgroups: ************ File USER_DISK:<UUCP.NEWS59B.NEWS_SRC>NEWSFILES.OLD;2 342 newsgrp.grp_reg = 1; 343 newsgrp.grp_ia = newsgrp.grp_iasize = 0; ****** File USER_DISK:<UUCP.NEWS59B.NEWS_SRC>NEWSFILES.C;3 342 newsgrp.grp_reg = 0; /* [BT] was 1 */ 343 newsgrp.grp_ia = newsgrp.grp_iasize = 0; ************ ************ File USER_DISK:<UUCP.NEWS59B.NEWS_SRC>NEWSUTILITY.OLD;2 924 ga[i]->grp_reg = 1; 925 ga[i]->grp_display_indx = (cur_dir_type < DIR_NEW); ****** File USER_DISK:<UUCP.NEWS59B.NEWS_SRC>NEWSUTILITY.C;3 924 ga[i]->grp_reg = 0; /* [BT] was 1 */ 925 ga[i]->grp_display_indx = (cur_dir_type < DIR_NEW); ************ I would suggest to Geoff that the constants used should at least be made symbolic and placed in NEWSSITE.H so that we can choose which way News will act. Cheers, -Bruce -- Bruce Tanner (213) 860-2451 x 596 Tanner@Cerritos.EDU Cerritos College Norwalk, CA cerritos!tanner
jeh@simpact.com (12/09/89)
In article <4898.257d63a7@cerritos.edu>, tanner@cerritos.edu writes: > When users run News for the first time, they are registered for all newsgroups. > The same is true for existing News readers and newly created newsgroups. The latter is supposed to be addressed by a profile option, SET PROFILE/NONEWREGISTER (the default) or /NEWREGISTER[="pattern list"]. For /NEWREG, the pattern list defaults to *. However, I have noticed that /NONEWREG doesn't seem to have any effect (other than changing the displayed profile). --- Jamie Hanrahan, Simpact Associates, San Diego CA Chair, VMSnet [DECUS uucp] and Internals Working Groups, DECUS VAX Systems SIG Internet: jeh@simpact.com, or if that fails, jeh@crash.cts.com Uucp: ...{crash,scubed,decwrl}!simpact!jeh