Aunc.3347
net.news
utzoo!decvax!duke!unc!smb
Sat Apr 24 16:52:44 1982
shortening subscription lists

A lot of users here have extremely long subscription lists; most of these
are of the form 'all,!net.foo,!net.bar,...'.  The idea, in general, is to
see anything new and interesting that comes over the net, but to unsubscribe
when the topic proves to be of little interest.  From comments I've seen
on the net, other sites have experienced similar phenomena.

I suggest that inews be modified so that any news item that forces an
update to the active file be posted to group 'newgroup' as well.  This
group would not be broadcast to any other system; indeed, inews should
reject any attempt to post to it explicitly, whether from the local system
or via rnews.  Comments?


		--Steve Bellovin

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