Apur-ee.187
net.news.b
utzoo!decvax!pur-ee!davy
Thu Dec 17 11:27:01 1981
Suggestion on handling subscriptions

Here's an idea for a change in handling newsgroup subscription/non-subscription:
What if, instead of having the "options -s" (or "-n" for gamma, I guess), how
about just writing out every newsgroup to the file, and then, if you don't
want to subscribe, slap a ! in front of it.  Like this:

               net.games
               net.news
               !net.bugs.v7
               !net.ham-radio
               net.columbia

               etc.

The reason I suggest this is, my "options" line is "wrapping around" the screen
for the third time!  It's longer than the printer is wide!  Anyway, all I have
in there are 4 fa. groups, and a bunch of "!newsgroup".  Part of the problem
is things like the change from net.*-bugs to "net.bugs.*", so I guess this will
work itself out soon.

--Dave

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