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Stale & Trn

#289
From: Terry Asher alias - The Penguin
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 17:01
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    I have 2 questions - one concerns c-news dated Dec. 22, 1991 and the other
is about trn version 2.0.  Forgive me if these questions have been asked 
before.  I am our news administrator at Drake University and am fairly new
to c-news.  We get our feed from news.iastate.edu and I have talked with them
and they assured me that this next error was not their fault.  We checked to
see if it was a clock-sync problem between our two systems and our system time
wasn't off by more than a minute from their time.  They have the May, 1992
version of c-news.

    The first error is in root's mail which reads as follows:
      leading five sites sending stale/future/misdated news:
      249 news.iastate.edu
The number above changes constantly; going up and down.

    The second error is more an enhancement than an error.  Is there some way
that when you start trn you can get the first 22 news groups in your .newsrc 
file on your screen instead of just the first 5?  Also, is there some way to
get rid of the question that asks if you want to subscribe to the newest group
on Usenet and automatically subscribe to every new news group that comes out
and have it added to the end of your .newsrc file?  Thanks to all who respond.
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From: ta2321s@dunix.drake.edu (Terry Asher alias -       The Penguin)
Subject: Stale & Trn
Message-ID: <1993Jan7.170102.1835@dunix.drake.edu>
Organization: Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa, USA
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Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 17:01:02 GMT
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