Ahouti.102 net.news utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!duke!chico!harpo!npois!houxi!houti!rick Wed Feb 3 14:24:42 1982 whittle 'ol wish list Since most users (???) specify "all" initially for a newsgroup subscription list, then start whittling down the list after viewing the latest newsgroup additions, woudln't it be nice if you could merely prepend a "!" to the newsgroup history information as in: !net.cooks: 1-16 !net.auto.all: 1-25 Even though you may have looked at a newsgroup once, this would provide a quick way to trash a group, and yet still be able to read a legible list. Constantly revising "options ..." is a p.i.t.a. for numerous (and ever expanding) groups, especially since "options" arguments may only appear in one, long, ugly, cryptic, verbose, run-on line!!! Rick Maus (...!houti!rick) ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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.