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From: dsill@ark1.nswc.navy.mil (Dave Sill)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Switching between rn and xrn
Message-ID: <194@ark1.nswc.navy.mil>
Date: 25 Oct 89 18:24:00 GMT
Sender: news@ark1.nswc.navy.mil
Reply-To: Dave Sill <dsill@relay.nswc.navy.mil>
Organization: Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren VA
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I, and several of my users, switch between xrn (at work) and rn (at
home).  Rn, as currently compiled, can't handle .newsrc files with 538
lines, so we typically delete the entries for unsubscribed groups.
Some of us have no problems with this method, but others get the
obnoxious "BEEP newsgroup foo does not exist!" messages for each group
our site doesn't receive.

Why do some have this problem but not others?

Is there a workaround short of recompling rn?  I'll probably go ahead
and recompile it anyway, but I'd like to understand what's happening.
I tried scanning the source, but it didn't pop right out at me and I'm
not *that* curious.

Dave Sill (dsill@relay.nswc.navy.mil)