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Jason Bedard

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Jan 25, 2000, 3:00:00 AM1/25/00
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Everytime I log on to the news groups I have to go through an amazingly long
Everytime I log on to the news groups I have to go through an amazingly long list of available news groups. Is there any way to avoid this?
Everytime I log on to the news groups I have to go through an amazingly long list of available news groups. Is there any way to avoid this?

Joshua Allen

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Jan 25, 2000, 3:00:00 AM1/25/00
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jbe...@ivory.trentu.ca (Jason Bedard) writes:

>Everytime I log on to the news groups I have to go through an amazingly
>long list of available news groups. Is there any way to avoid this?

Everyone is having the same problem I think. It just started happening at the
beginning of this semester. I would have thought that it would have been fixed
by now, I'm not sure if the sys-admin knows about it.

Bonnie MacKinnon (705)748-1495

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Jan 25, 2000, 3:00:00 AM1/25/00
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I tried Hoover the Mover's patch that he posted on tu.g and it
worked for me. Read on.... /Bonnie


Xref: news.trentu.ca trentu.general:14253
Newsgroups: trentu.general
Path: news.trentu.ca!IVORY.trentu.ca!LHOOVER
From: lho...@ivory.trentu.ca (HOOVER THE MOVER)
Subject: Re: newsgroups
Sender: ne...@news.trentu.ca (News System)
Message-ID: <Fo7ABy.Dv...@news.trentu.ca>
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 02:16:46 GMT
Reply-To: lho...@ivory.trentu.ca
References: <Fo76ou.F0...@news.trentu.ca>
Organization: Trent University, Peterborough

In article <Fo76ou.F0...@news.trentu.ca>, jdefa...@ivory.trentu.ca (I dream of jeannine....) writes:
>Can anyone explain why since new years
>whenever i go to news, i get this huge list
>of new groups?
>thanks dave

Why, I can't explain. But how to fix it, I can.

At the news prompt enter NEWS> set newsrc [filename].newsrc
where [filename is a filename of your choice. I used news, i.e. news.newsrc

After doing this, the scrolling lists immediately ceased.

Larry

jda...@ivory.trentu.ca

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Jan 25, 2000, 3:00:00 AM1/25/00
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set newsrc .newsrc

I would be more concerned why your post is so messed
I would be more concerned why your post is so messed
I would be more concerned why your post is so messed

:)

jda...@ivory.trentu.ca

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Jan 25, 2000, 3:00:00 AM1/25/00
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Um, it was discovered a few weeks ago (although its been happening for
almost a month now).

Just type:

set newsrc .newsrc

the next time your run newsrdr... From now on newsrdr should remember
new groups.

j.

In article <FowuD7.Cu...@news.trentu.ca>, joa...@ivory.trentu.ca (Joshua Allen) writes:

>jbe...@ivory.trentu.ca (Jason Bedard) writes:
>
>>Everytime I log on to the news groups I have to go through an amazingly

>>long list of available news groups. Is there any way to avoid this?
>

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