Amhtsa.105 net.news utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ihnss!mhtsa!mjs Sat Dec 12 01:07:07 1981 New feature? In spite of the availability of the documentation, I am constantly being pestered by novice types who don't (yet) know what sorts of things come in which newsgroups (and which are `official', etc.). I just had an idea how to eliminate this problem: give readnews another option -? which means "tell me about available newsgroups", and merely keep the information as fields in the `active' file. Anyone care to do this, or estimate how many staff-months, etc.?? Marty Shannon BTL MH ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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.