Re: [leafnode-list] scripts to keep groups coming (was: (no subject))

["Ron 'The InSaNe One' Rosson" <insane@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, lconrad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx was heard blurting out:

> krasel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Cornelius Krasel) writes:
> 
> > Tim McDaniel wrote:
> > 
> > > Looks like this is a Frequently Useful Task.  C., want to
> > > put a script into the distribution to do this sort of thing,
> > > or maybe a "use_newsrc =" option into the config file, or something?
> > 
> > Sounds like a Good Idea (tm). Format of .newsrc is normally lots of
> > lines of the form
> > 
> > news.group.name: numbers of articles read
> > 
> > isn't it? (At least that is how .newsrc looks for my tin.)
> 
> The relevant point for this exercise is that the group name is
> followed by a colon if the group is subscribed, and by an ! if it is
> unsubscribed.  (At least in gnus, but I think in things like rn and
> tin as well.)
> 

Just checked my .jnewsrc for slrn and it is the same way : for subscribed
groups and ! for unsubscribed.

TTFN
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