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! -- Kent Covert, Software Coordinator Miami Computing and Information Services Miami University, Oxford, OH [log in to unmask] (internet) kacovert@miavx1 (bitnet)