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From: dveditz@dbase.UUCP (Dan Veditz)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: how to .... in rn
Message-ID: <293@dbase.UUCP>
Date: 1 Nov 89 17:39:12 GMT
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Mike Morris asks:
>Let's say that I go on vacation, and come back and soc.smurfs has
>544 unread messages in it.  How do I cancel, let's say, 520 of them
>so I can read the 24 ?   

At the group prompt type in the number of the first article you want to read.
then enter:

	?.?h:j

This will search backwards and junk all previous articles.  If you want them 
back you can use ?.?rh:m -- marks as read all articles prior to the one you're
currently reading.

-Dan Veditz
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