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Eze Ogwuma <typhoon@dircon.co.uk> writes:

> SL Baur <steve@xemacs.org> writes:

>> Who put in the #'s?  That's not valid Emacs or XEmacs.

> Not me. I didn't think they should be there. Perhaps the file was
> corrupted when X crashed a while back.

The first snippet didn't look corrupted.  The parens were balanced.

I've had my X server go west on me twice in the last couple weeks
while in Gnus (both times I had hit the next article button on the
toolbar) without .newsrc corruption, not that that has much if any
bearing on your situation.