rn 4.3 doesn't tolerate disk quota exceeded

[Garry Wiegand]

I'm running rn 4.3 and news 2.11 on a BSD 4.3 Gould. I was editing an 'f'
followup when I exceeded my disk space quota and my (dumb) editor crashed
followed immediately by rn locking up (either a spin or keyboard trouble;
not sure.) I killed the login shell, returned, and discovered that my .newsrc 
file was completely empty. I eventually discovered the existence of 
".oldnewsrc" but by then it was empty too.

Inasmuch as we have >300 newgroups nowadays, reconstructing the .newsrc
from scratch was a trifle painful.

Could we please arrange that rn grab a "lot" of space for its files to start
(and truncate on exit) to avoid quota problems?

Also, why was the .newsrc completely empty??

Arrrgh.

garry wiegand   (garry%cadif-oak at cu-arpa.cs.cornell.edu)