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From: king@cell.mot.COM (Steven King)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Bogus Newsgroups
Message-ID: <780@grape3.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jan 90 00:16:02 GMT
References: <1292@ariel.unm.edu>
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In article <1292@ariel.unm.edu> heustess@deimos.unm.edu.UUCP (Lori Heustess) writes:
>
>One of my favorite newsgroups has recently become  
>a "bogus" newsgroup. Why? What happend? Does this
>mean I can no longer read this group?

There's another possibility, in addition to what others have said.  This 
happens to me all the time:  I'm using a Sun, and I leave 'rn' running all
day.  Sometimes when new news is received from outside, 'rn' chokes and
marks ALL my newsgroups as bogus.  The only solution I've found is to 
copy my .newsrc to a temporary file, quit 'rn', and copy the temp file back
to .newsrc.  It's rather annoying, but it beats using 'nn'! :-)

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