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From: dman@homxa.UUCP (#D.ANDERSON)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: New Readnews -- an idea for a command
Message-ID: <113@homxa.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 6-Feb-84 12:05:03 EST
Article-I.D.: homxa.113
Posted: Mon Feb  6 12:05:03 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 9-Feb-84 02:42:05 EST
Organization: Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ
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Here at the hocc I implemented a command that updates the .newsrc to the
currently oldest articles on the machine. It seemed in our 2.10, if a new
user started reading netnews, a group with many articles (like unix wizards)
would take forever to get into - it was trying to find the first N articles.
I do some of the work each night when the spool directories are cleaned, and
some when the user invokes the command. Also whenever a new user executes
readnews, if a .newsrc can not be found the default is copied in. Readnews
runs real fast this way for us.

This is fairly quick to change into an 'update to currently recieved news'
program. Most of it is in shell (written quick and dirty) and easily
modifiable. If there is interest, maybe I can post it to the net.


				Dave Anderson  (201) 949-5552