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From: wmperry@aventail.com (William M. Perry)
Subject: Re: Disappearing groups
Date: 08 Apr 1997 14:51:29 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86pvw5w5cu.fsf@kramer.in.aventail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of 08 Apr 1997 22:57:46 +0200

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> I've had some scary reports on people losing most of the groups from
> .newsrc.eld, so it would be nice if you could do this test case.
> 
> 1)  Copy .newsrc.eld to a safe place
> 2)  Do some group sorting commands -- `G S a' etc.
> 3)  `s' to save the .newsrc.eld file
> 4)  Examine if the .newsrc.eld file has shrunk dramatically
> 5)  If this is the case, mail me the old .newsrc.eld file

  This worked fine for me, with quite a few newsgroups, and 12 or 15 mail
groups.

-Bill P.


  reply	other threads:[~1997-04-08 21:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1997-04-08 20:57 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-04-08 21:51 ` William M. Perry [this message]
1997-04-09  7:41 ` Jan Vroonhof
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1997-03-18 20:57 disappearing groups Eric Hendrickson

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