Subscribing (concept)

"Subscribing" to a newsgroup is the act of marking that group as one in which you are interested and which you would like to track. The term "Subscribing" is misleading, as you are not actually notifying anyone of your interest in the group - it is a purely local and personal distinction that a particular newsgroup is one that you are interested in.

Newsgroups to which you do not subscribe all called "unsubscribed". WinVN allows you to hide unsubscribed newsgroups so that they are not listed in the main group-list window. You can make your newsgroup list more manageable by subscribing to the groups you are interested in, and hiding the unsubscribed groups. See Configure Group-List.