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From: kgustilo@pennsy.med.jhu.edu
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Subject: Re: The News-How to Post?
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Date: 14 Jun 91 07:32:58 GMT
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In article <_08k3n=@rpi.edu> gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn)
writes:
>> Also, how can you read old (already read)
>> articles?  The "unread" command is greyed
>> out unless you are in the group.

>The second question is a bit trickier.  I haven't read the manual for TheNews 

>yet, but I think the only way you can do that is to change your preferences  
>settings.  Turn off the "only show unread articles" option, click "Okay"  
>(instead of "Save"), and then double-click on the group you want to see.   
>You'll get the headers for all articles which are in that group.
>
>Hmm, I guess the first one might require a preferences change too, depending
on  
>how your preferences are set.  If you have the "only show groups with unread  
>articles" preference on, you'll have to turn that off and re-open your  
>newsgroup file.  Then the newsgroup will be listed even though it has no new  
>articles.
>
When you are in the groups window, command+d followed by command+a also works

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