Subject: Re: Unsubscribe to all newsgroups

From: [email-masked] (Al Castanoli)
Date: 26 Mar 1995 17:35:25 GMT

Mike Brudenell ([email-masked]) wrote:
: [...]
: Some newsreaders automatically check for new newsgroups as they start 
: up.  Pine does not do that at present (it may one day; anyone care to 
: comment?).
: [...]

Since you asked, I think it's an awful idea....whenever I'm testing out a 
new newsreader hack, it hangs up on "subscribe newsgroup alt.fan.foo" or 
some such (for we all know what a pain it is to run an ls -lt against 
the index of newsgroup files) until I go in and answer no to the 
question with my old newsreader (tin).

-- Al Castanoli | [email-masked]

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From: Dan Schlitt <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 1995 10:20:20 -0400 (EDT)

This should probably be a configurable option if things are changed.  For 
use at home for the convenience of others who read news there I don't 
want to see a list of the "new" newsgroups.

But here at work where I am a news administrator it is satisfying to see 
the list of groups that I think that I have added and to have the 
opportunity to easily subscribe to those that I want to observe traffic 
volume and the like.

/dan

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Dan Schlitt                           School of Engineering Computer Systems
[email-masked]        City College of New York
(212)650-6760                         New York, NY 10031

On 26 Mar 1995, Al Castanoli wrote:

> Since you asked, I think it's an awful idea....
>