From: utzoo!watmath!watcgl!dmmartindale
Newsgroups: net.news
Title: Re: Inf. loop in readnews?
Article-I.D.: watcgl.374
Posted: Tue May  3 10:47:05 1983
Received: Wed May  4 00:19:47 1983
References: cmcl2.30462

If you do "readnews -x", it takes a LONG time to figure out what the first
article actually present on the machine is.  Try "readnews -xr" instead,
and it will start at the most recent article (which is probably closer to
what you wanted).