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From: lhe@sics.se (Lars-Henrik Eriksson)
Subject: Re: PLEASE!!! Repost the FAQ!!!
In-Reply-To: a93161@cs.ait.ac.th's message of 10 Oct 1994 19:38:44 GMT
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Date: Fri, 14 Oct 1994 07:51:11 GMT
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In article <37c584$15t@cs5.cs.ait.ac.th> a93161@cs.ait.ac.th (Ayoob E. Dooply) writes:

   Here goes a tip:

   News readers keep track of your current subsription and the last
   postings that you read in the file '.newsrc' in your home
   directory. Each line of this file is name of a news group followed by
   either '!' or ': xxxxxx'.

You cannot say that "news readers" do this. Some Unix based
newsreaders do, that is true, but there are newsreaders that are not
Unix based which keeps track of newsgroups in entirely different
ways. There is also nothing that says that a Unix based newsreader
must do it in this way.

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