Awatmath.1652 net.news utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!watmath!japlaice Sun Feb 7 20:04:58 1982 RE: all If all acts as '*' does, but only up to a period, then why does all in the options line give one all newsgroups, even those that are subgroups? John Plaice at U. of Waterloo ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.