[1509] in SIPB bug reports
rn startup "subscribe? [ynY]"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Thu Dec 6 21:33:43 1990
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 90 21:32:52 -0500
From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
To: dkk@mit.edu
Cc: bug-sipb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: David Krikorian's message of Thu, 6 Dec 90 16:39:02 -0500 <9012062139.AA14811@tisiphone.MIT.EDU>
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 90 16:39:02 -0500
From: David Krikorian <dkk@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: dkk@mit.edu
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I and at least some others object to the "subscribe? [ynY]" prompt for
a new newsgroup. Before, we had "subscribe? [ynq]", if I remember
correctly. Now there seems to be no way to punt other than ^C.
If by "punt" you mean "quit" without adding the rest of the new
newsgroups to your .newsrc, then the current behavior is correct --
the old behavior of rn, allowing your .newsrc to be out-of-sync with
the active file, was wrong -- user .newsrc files are *supposed* to
contain all active newsgroups.
If by "punt" you mean "add all newsgroups to the end of the .newsrc
file unsubscribed," then I agree, there should be an option to do
that, perhaps 'N'. I'll look into fixing it and sending the patch
back to Stan Barber.
jik
