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 [log in to unmask] (internet) kacovert@miavx1 (bitnet)