ecn-ec:ecn-pc:ecn-ed:vu@pur-ee.UUCP (08/24/83)
If you don't want to read a newsgroup, and you can't unsubscribe it, there are 2 ways around: readnews -n : reading only selected newsgroup, thus "readnews" can be replaced by "readnews -n net.general general (localsite).general" and net.manners will be by-passed. or you can manually over-updating .newsrc . E.g. you are tired of net.manners up to article 1, make it net.manner: 1-999 !