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From: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Unavailable articles (was Re: subscribing to new/old groups)
Keywords: subscription list
Message-ID: <1990Jan8.184551.2076@iwarp.intel.com>
Date: 8 Jan 90 18:45:51 GMT
References: <876@lclark.UUCP>
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Reply-To: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz)
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In-Reply-To: brooks@lclark.UUCP (Thomas Brooks)

In article <876@lclark.UUCP>, brooks@lclark (Thomas Brooks) writes:
| And on a side note, what does "skipping unavailable article" tell me?
| Why is an article "unavailable"??

An unavailable article is an article that at one time existed but now
has been cancelled or expired.  The text for the article no longer
exists in your news spool, but the article number is not recycled
(which would play chaos with your newsreader).

Just another news-admin (finally... sigh),
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