Aucbvax.5362 net.news utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!wildbill Wed Dec 2 21:55:13 1981 news bug Being interested in many aspects of life, I have the line "options -s all" in my Betanews .newsrc file. This evening, while going through the news of the day, I obtained the interesting message "readnews: too many newsgroups" near the end of the news, after which the .newsrc update was not done. When quitting just before reading the news item which caused this message to appear, any attempt at readnews causes the message "readnews: too many lines in .newsrc". It appears that a limit of 50 newsgroups has been enforced by the readnews program. Has anyone else out there encountered this problem? This message also represents a plea to those responsible for Betanews to fix this feature. Also, this indicates that the plan to have many newsgroups on specialized topics may be in severe jeopardy. System news gurus at all sites are urged to clean up their active news lists and report all newsgroups on which the sun has set to their subscribers. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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.