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Question: does C news use the "alias" file anymore?

Suggestion: I understand that there's probably a performance penalty in 
having to look at a second file besides active, but it seems like this 
would be a good place to permanently park a number of groups.  I went 
through and deleted about a hundred groups as either too inactive to 
bother with or replaced by other groups.  It would be nice to put these 
groups once in a file that C news understands and forget about them.  I
won't have to try to remember whether alt.some.silly.thing is a new 
group or just somebody playing with an old dead group.  

If the performance hit is too bad to use a file other than active, maybe
newsdaily could delete references to articles whose newsgroup line is 
found in "alias".

The objection to keeping them as "=something.else" is that some newsreader
programs seem to understand the "=" syntax, but others don't.

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