dave@utcsrgv.UUCP (Dave Sherman) (03/05/84)
I had my .newsrc trashed last night by running "readnews -x -n net.religion.jewish". This happened to me once before. Recovering a lost .newsrc takes forever! (The previous time I had also been showing some stuff to my wife, and ran "readnews -x -n net.tv -t AMC", which also destroyed my .newsrc. That was a few months ago and I wrote it off as an accident.) What got left in the .newsrc was a chunk of the last article in the newsgroup. Dammit, when I run readnews with -x, the .newsrc should NEVER be opened for writing! Still growling..... Dave Sherman Toronto -- {allegra,cornell,decvax,ihnp4,linus,utzoo}!utcsrgv!dave