Acbosgd.2170 net.news.b utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ihnss!cbosg!cbosgd!mark Mon Mar 22 20:17:51 1982 readnews -e From: mark (Mark Horton) There was lots of random flakyness with prerelease readnews -e. This is a good reason to switch to 2.0, since the expire command (no longer readnews -e) is believed to work and since you can get verbose output from it to find out what it's doing and why. Mark