Aucbvax.5905 net.news.b utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!duke!chico!harpo!mhtsa!ihnss!ucbvax!wildbill Fri Jan 22 01:09:36 1982 Feature We are over 100 newsgroups at ucbvax these days (administrator please listen) and I have discovered an extremely galling feature--when readnews craps out because of too many .newsrc lines, it fails to update the .newsrc file as it dies. I think it would be a good idea to eliminate this feature, since it is a royal time pain to say "yes n | readnews" after editing out a couple of fake newsgroups from .newsrc. The second piece of bad news I have noticed lately comes out every time I login. I have a "newscheck e" in my .login, and this causes the message "readnews: Bad option string "HOME=/va/rigel/wildbill"", that last being the home directory string in my environment. This doesn't seem right either. Has anybody else noticed this? ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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.