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From: munnari!csc.anu.oz.au!gih900@UUNET.UU.NET (Geoff Huston)
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: RE: not getting new items, and old items appear as unread
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Date: 8 Dec 89 13:23:28 GMT
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>Strange thing 1:
>
>My first newsgroup is comp.arch.  Items in that newsgroup continually appear as
>unread, even if I mark them as read using SKIP/NEWSGROUP.  The very next time I
>fire up NEWS, they are back.  I tried deleting my newsrc., but it still happens
>with the new one.
     
>Strange thing 2:
>
>comp.arch isn't getting any new news items.  I haven't gotten energetic enough
>to try and figure out if they are actually coming down the wire or not, but the
>new messages are certainly not ending up in news_device:[comp.arch].  Also, the
>number of messages in *other* newsgroups is drastically reduced.
>
>I suspect there is a file somewhere that I need to rebuild.  Any suggestions?
     
yep - news.exe
     
There are a number of problems in 5.7 in this respect. 5.8 fixed a number of
these, and a few more areas were cleaned up in 5.9.
     
Geoff Huston