Re: unsubscribe_new_groups - change default?

* Peter J Ross on Monday, September 01, 2008 at 13:33:50 +0100
> <http://slrn.org/docs/slrn-manual-6.html#unsubscribe_new_groups>
> 
> Recent reports of slow startup seem to be a result of Highwinds-Media adding 
> ~10,000 groups to their list. By default, slrn subscribes the user to all new 
> groups unless the unsubscribe_new_groups configuration variable is set to 1.
> 
> I suspect that the majority of users would prefer new groups to be 
> unsubscribed by default, even when problems like this don't occur, so I'm 
> asking for the default for this variable to be changed from 0 to 1.

I still remember my sigh of relief when I discovered that setting
;-)

> Better still, perhaps the variable should be replaced 
> by "subscribe_new_groups" with a default of 0.

+1

c
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