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From: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: rn questions
Summary: rn fascism
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Date: 2 Oct 89 18:48:39 GMT
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Have you ever went a few weeks without reading a group, or just subscribe to a
new newsgroup and attempt to read it with rn?

It goes to the group, announces that it's 'skipping unavailable articles' and
then tells you 'end of news group'. 

Why? As far as I can tell it seems to balk when looking through a
newsgroup's articles and finding that there is bunch of missing articles (they
have expired since the last time you read the group) and decides to wipe out 
all the remaining articles, marking them as read.

WHY? WHY? WHY? [pulling out my hair]

why doesn't it just skip over the expired articles and continue on with the
articles that are not expired, like vnews does?

And is there a way to fix it?
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