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Re: [leafnode-list] Low-volume groups



>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Weinbrenner <t.weinbrenner@xxxxxx> writes:

    Thomas> On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 12:02:33AM -0500, Walt Mankowski wrote:
    >> I'm subscribed to several extremely low-volume groups which sometimes
    >> go weeks without a single post.  Is it possible that the groups might
    >> get expired and removed from interesting.groups in between posts? 

    Thomas> Yes, that happens.

    >> If so, is there anyway to prevent this from happening?

    Thomas> Always use fetchnews -n

What I do is have crontab run a script once a week that goes through
my .newsrc file and makes interesting.groups correspond to .newsrc.
You would need the .newsrc files of all the users on a multi-user
system, though.


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