In article <[log in to unmask]>,
[log in to unmask] (Dennis S. Keeler) writes:
> In article <[log in to unmask]>,
[log in to unmask] (Kent Covert) writes:
>> In article <[log in to unmask]>,
[log in to unmask] (Bart) writes:
>>> Last year I remember i deleted a few hundred newsgroups from my NEWSRC
file
>>> that I had no intention of ever reading, which greatly sped up the time it
took
>>> for news to load up. I tried this again yesterday, but the next time I
went
>>> into news, it added all the deleted groups back into my NEWSRC file as "New
>>> newsgroup, not registered" (or something like that). Is there any way to
>>> prevent this?
>>
>> There is an UNDOCUMENTED, UNSUPPORTED way to do this. The command
>> NEWS> SET PROFILE/FASTLOAD
>> will force NEWS to only save the newsgroups that you are registered to.
>>
>> *** Warning ***
>> This command is NOT documented and is NOT supported in ANY fashion by Miami
>> University. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!
>>
> I suggest against using this command until we can answer the original
> question (i.e. once I delete a newsgroup from my NEWSRC, how can I keep it
from
> being added again). I tried out FASTLOAD, which I assume did delete most of
my
> NEWSRC (didn't actually check). When re-entering news, however, all the
> newsgroups were re-added. I had to wait for 1000+ newsgroups to scroll past
as
> it said, "New newsgroup, not registered: blah.blah.blah" (Kent, don't think
> this is an attack on your advice. You made it very clear that FASTLOAD was
> unsupported. I thank you for giving us this "extra" information.)
Can you stop by sometime so we can investigate this. I've been using FASTLOAD
for months with no problems. In addition, I tried to make FASTLOAD do what you
said above and couldn't reproduce the problem.
--
Kent Covert, Software Coordinator
Miami Computing and Information Services
Miami University, Oxford, OH
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