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From: cosell@bbn.com (Bernie Cosell)
Newsgroups: news.software.nn
Subject: Re: Can someone please help?
Message-ID: <52199@bbn.COM>
Date: 14 Feb 90 13:47:45 GMT
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cn@allgfx.agi.oz (Con Neri) writes:

}I am constantly getting messages like while running nn version 6.3.0

}	'There are still 56 unread articles in 53 groups'

}what does it really mean? 

What it means is that you're running a too-old version of nn.

}How do I read these unread articles? 

FTP out the patchfiles, and it'll go away.  The original 6.3 had a bug in
that if there was a newsgroup that had *never* received a posting it would
show up as a _permanent_ 'unread'.  There are lots of groups that get
postings once every six months, or even less often, and so you can run nn for
quite a while and _still_ have some of these kicking around.

  /bernie\