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wohler@sapwdf.UUCP (Bill Wohler) writes:

>  determine which
>  groups you're interested in (i don't have any easy way to do that),
>  or conversely, which groups you're not interested in, and have your
>  newsfeed modify their news sys file based on that.

I have several shell and awk scripts to do it for my site (Kralizec).
I'm happy to share them with anybody who is interested enough to send
me E-mail on the subject.

Essentially what they do is this: For each user (I have 75), their .newsrc
is checked and if they subscribe to a group and if their last article
pointer is current within the group, then that's marked as one subscription.

The system then tallies all the subscriptions and picks the top 250. This
list is merged with several others - including lists of "must have" groups
as well as lists of groups fed to my downstream sites, and also "banned"
groups are removed. That final subscription list is sent to my upstream
site once a week.

The approach is probably sub-optimal, and I'm open to suggestions. It does
however save me the chore of picking our subscription list myself when I
don't really know what my members like to read. I team it with Nn options
set to ignore new groups, as well as a default subscription list for new
Nn users. We are also running an application which lets users tailor their
subscription list while reading the newsgroup descriptions. One known
requirement is to notify all users of new groups once a week or so. The
users do NOT want Nn to subscribe them automatically!

Nick.
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