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From: dylan@ibmpcug.co.uk (Matthew Farwell)
Newsgroups: news.misc,news.software.nn,comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: newsreaders may ignore comp.unix.wizards
Message-ID: <1991Feb1.015301.17500@ibmpcug.co.uk>
Date: 1 Feb 91 01:53:01 GMT
References: <2590@root44.co.uk>
Reply-To: dylan@ibmpcug.CO.UK (Matthew Farwell)
Organization: The IBM PC User Group, UK.
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In article <2590@root44.co.uk> gwc@root.co.uk (Geoff Clare) writes:
>I was curious that the group had apparently not been re-created and checked
>in the active file on our system, only to find that it was there after all.
>A little investigation revealed that my newsreader (nn) had ignored it
>because my .newsrc still had a line left over from the last incarnation of
>comp.unix.wizards showing articles 1-19898 as read.  As the re-created
>group started again from article number 1, nn has been treating all
>articles as already read.  Other newsreaders may be doing the same.

Unless of course, you never delgroup'ed it in the first place....

Dylan.
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