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From: steinmetz!sprite!montnaro@UUNET.UU.NET (Skip Montanaro)
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Subject: updating problem with gnus3.10
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Date: 3 Feb 89 17:49:11 GMT
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gerry@TOADWAR.UCAR.EDU (gerry wiener) writes:

   I was able to install gnus3.10 on a sun 4 and read articles from a
   remote server.  Unfortunately, every time I exit with q, and
   subsequently fire up gnus once again, the article numbers in the List
   of Newsgroups buffer do not get updated.  This is especially strange
   since .newsrc and .newsrc.el do get updated.  Any ideas?

I had a similar problem when I first subscribed to the new comp.sys.sun. I
had unsubscribed when it first went no-digest, resulting in a line like:

	comp.sys.sun! 1-1734

Later, when I subscribed, I got an extra line like:

	comp.sys.sun: 1-250

When reading ~/.newsrc, its data structures would be affected last by the
second line, but when writing it would update the first line. It always
thought I hadn't read anything recently. Fix was (of course) to remove the
second line and change the ! to a : in the first.

I don't know if it was an accident on my part that caused the duplicate
lines or a bug in gnus.

Skip Montanaro (montanaro@sprite.steinmetz.ge.com, montanaro@ge-crd.arpa)