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From: pjh@mccc.uucp (Pete Holsberg)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: .newsrc, active, rn
Message-ID: <1990Aug15.015305.21137@mccc.uucp>
Date: 15 Aug 90 01:53:05 GMT
Organization: The College On The Other Side Of Route One
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We use a fairly short expire period on mccc because of the size of our
hard disks.  If a person who hasn't read news (we have rn) in a while logs
on, they find that their .newsrc is "out-of-phase" with the active file,
so when they go to a group that has had articles expired, rn says
something like "can't read that article" and then does a "catch up",
thereby marking the unread articles as "read".

Is there a way to get the two files in sync, or perhaps change rn so
that it simply reads what's there?

Thanks,
Pete
-- 
Prof. Peter J. Holsberg      Mercer County Community College
Voice: 609-586-4800          Engineering Technology, Computers and Math
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