[news.newusers.questions] Unavailable articles

merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz) (01/09/90)

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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