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Apur-ee.214 net.general utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!pur-ee!ks Thu Feb 4 21:45:36 1982 Long .newsrc file If you suscribe to all newsgroups, and unsuscribe to only the most offensive (like I do), you might be interested in a suggestion:

It often was unbearable for me to wait while readnews checked all the newsgroup in my .newsrc file. I found out I had accumulated 130 newsgroups! But only 66 were "active". So I created a file with several hundred lines containing only an 'n'. The last line had a 'q'. Then, I ran "readnews /dev/null". I think I'll do this once a month or so to keep things moving quicker. Depending on your local set-up, this could be a real timesaver.

Kirk Smith

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