[5940] in Athena Bugs
news.announce.newusers is not availabel for new rn users
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (paul@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Tue Sep 4 15:45:55 1990
From: paul@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 90 15:45:43 -0400
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, bug-sipb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Below is a a cut-and-paste from a brand new user's session. I
repeated this result with a couple of different usernames on a pvax.
-Paul
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If you have never used the news system before, you may find the articles
in news.announce.newusers to be helpful. There is also a manual entry for rn.
To get rid of newsgroups you aren't interested in, use the 'u' command.
Type h for help at any time while running rn.
(Revising soft pointers--be patient.)
Unread news in athena.forsale 10 articles
Unread news in athena.housing 6 articles
Unread news in athena.misc 2 articles
Unread news in mit.bboard 81 articles
Unread news in ne.forsale 32 articles
etc.
Checking active list for new newsgroups...
******** 10 unread articles in athena.forsale--read now? [ynq] g news.announce.newusers
******** 0 unread articles in news.announce.newusers--read now? [ynq]
End of newsgroup news.announce.newusers.
What next? [qnp]