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Subject: RN question - un-available article disappearance
Keywords: common ?
Message-ID: <1991Mar29.154726.24842@netdev.comsys.com>
Date: 29 Mar 91 15:47:26 GMT
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Organization: Communication Systems Research, Dallas, Tx 75252
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Thanks to all that responded to my somewhat naive question on C-news. I have
another one.

I'm running rn version 4.3.2.7, and have the following unexplainable 
behaviours:

When reading articles, rn reports bogus numbers of articles available
to read. Scanning with '=' command show there are some number less than
previously advertised. Is there a fix for this ?

When actually reading the articles, the top of the page displays how
many remain unread '(516) more ' . When rn determines that there really
aren't 516 more articles, he reports 'skipping unavailable article', and
*sometimes* decides to skip all remaining articles, available or not...

Does rn have some intrinsic knowledge about what I'm really interested in?
Will it polish my shoes for me ? I think not. Looking from the outside,
it appears that rn skips these articles ( previously shown with '=' command ),
based on some algorithm I'm not familiar with. Is there a fix ?

If you have a solution for this please drop me a note. 

Thanks in advance,

 -Alex