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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