beall@nunki.usc.edu (Judith Beall) (09/27/89)
I just had a couple of questions here. First of all, how can I post to a group without replying to another post? All I can figure out how to do is an "r" <or "R">. Also, if I "unsubscribed" to a newsgroup <Several, actually>, how can I "resubscribe" to them if I changed my mind? Email replies would be appreciated!
briang@bari.Sun.COM (Brian Gordon) (09/27/89)
In article <5354@merlin.usc.edu> beall@nunki.usc.edu (Judith Beall) writes: >I just had a couple of questions here. First of all, how can I post to a >group without replying to another post? All I can figure out how to do is >an "r" <or "R">. Packaged with your newsreader is a newsposter, such as postnews. It does the "normal" postings, and is typically run from the shell-prompt level (i.e. not under the newsreader itself). > Also, if I "unsubscribed" to a newsgroup <Several, actually>, >how can I "resubscribe" to them if I changed my mind? Yes. A typical user interface (e.g. in 'rn') is to "g <groupname>", which will ask you if you want to resubscribe. Of source, you can also edit the .newsrc where is it pretty obvious what character determines the difference between sunscribed and unsubscribed groups (viz. ':' vs '!'). +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ | Brian G. Gordon briang@Corp.Sun.COM (if you trust exotic mailers) | | ...!sun!bari!briang (if you route it yourself) | +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
dan@dsi.COM (Dan Mick) (09/28/89)
For rn: You can "followup" to an empty message by joining a group with no unreads (say 'g <newsgroup>'), say 'y' when it asks if you want to join the group with 0 unreads, and do 'f' for followup. You'll get into your editor as though you were doing a followup to a message, but with no references. Try it in a local newsgroup to avoid public embarrassment. For re-subscribing to newsgroups you've unsubscribed from, I think 'g <newsgroup>' does the trick. You can also edit .newsrc directly, I suppose, and get rid of the '!' on the line with the newsgroup in question. (Don't have hard evidence that either of these work.)