(...) I see a couple of additional options, which you may or may not like. 1. Use a different newsreader to access lugnet. There's a lot of other great newsreaders for unix. You'll have to configure them to use a file other than ~/.newsrc, of (...) (25 years ago, 18-Aug-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
(...) That's what I do with slrn - I use it with 4 different news servers. slrn is great - best newsreader I've ever used. (25 years ago, 18-Aug-99, to lugnet.admin.general)