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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.