Xref: utzoo comp.unix.internals:2173 comp.unix.wizards:24276 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!hellgate.utah.edu!csn!news From: cdash@margaux.colorado.edu (Charles Shub) Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals,comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: newsreaders may ignore comp.unix.wizards Message-ID: <1991Feb27.014901.5228@csn.org> Date: 27 Feb 91 01:49:01 GMT References: <2590@root44.co.uk> <1991Feb25.142140.4552@gjetor.geac.COM> Sender: news@csn.org (news) Organization: University of Colorado at Colorado Springs Lines: 18 Nntp-Posting-Host: margaux.colorado.edu In article adeboer@gjetor.geac.COM (Anthony DeBoer) writes: => 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. => => Now, isn't this the sort of thing that would only be caught by a wizard? This OBVIOUSLY NOT. Just look at the drivel that has appeared here since the recreattion. -- charlie shub cdash@boulder.Colorado.EDU -or- ..!{ucar|nbires}!boulder!cdash or even cdash@colospgs (BITNET) -or- (719) 593-3492 Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com