Anpois.135 net.news.b utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!duke!chico!harpo!mhtsa!ihnss!houxi!npois!jak Sat Jan 16 22:05:52 1982 Re: What Happens When... i agree with these concerns. there should be an automatic (or semi-automatic) method of purging the spool of old directories; the active file of dropped news groups; and most importantly: the users .newsrc files. The news administrator usually will manually clean up the spool and active file; however, the users NEVER think to clean out the .newsrc file (both in their subscription line as well as the subsequent lines) How about if readnews removed anything in .newsrc which was no longer in the active file?? Jim Kutsch (npois!jak) ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.