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On Thursday, in article <832848018snz@dsl.co.uk>
     bhk@dsl.co.uk "Brian {Hamilton Kelly}" wrote:

BK> Getting back to the wishlist for SNews, I'd like to see better  support
BK> for multiple users.  It's already been acknowledged that snzprune has
BK> difficulty with multiple .NRC files for multiple users (does that
BK> restriction still apply?).

This restriction was removed in version 2 of prune.

BK> Incidentally, whilst working on the .NRC aspect of SNews, how about
BK> cutting down its volume drastically?  It would be very easy, surely, to
BK> reflect the format of the .newsrc of many of the standard Unix readers,
BK> which don't require every single read article to be listed separately.

Maybe, but is this change really necessary?  I have some 3000 
articles in my newsbase, but a .NRC for a new user (i.e. listing all 
articles in the newsbase) only takes about 8k.  Since the format is 
easily readable by the program, I think it's worth sticking with; 
even on my tiny HD, 8k isn't critical.  I can imagine that prune, for 
example, would have a more difficult job if it had to calculate runs 
of numbers when modifying the .nrc: much easier to just delete 
individial numbers.  I'm also happy to know that there's less 
complicated code to go wrong :)

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