Re: Old messages missing on the present newsgroup

[Alan_C <mtbr0228AT@sbcglobalDOT.net>]

Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi.
> 
> Some old messages sent to the present newsgroup
> are not accessible, it seems, if I search for them via
> nntp server, whereas they're seen through web interface
> and also in the archives of the info-gnus-english@gnu.org mailing list.
> How come?

I don't know.

But in the summary or where articles are listed, I've seen missing
parent of article it is because I previously read it -- at that buffer
there is menu item "article" then "fetch parent of article"

Previously read I think are in the .newsrc file

-rw-r--r--   1 al   users        917 2006-03-22 19:36 .newsrc
-rw-r--r--   1 al   users       5589 2006-03-22 19:36 .newsrc.eld
-rw-r--r--   1 al   users       5605 2006-03-20 04:22 .newsrc.eld~
-rw-r--r--   1 al   users         71 2005-12-17 23:59 .newsrc_orig
-rw-r--r--   1 al   users        911 2006-03-20 04:22 .newsrc~

I made .newsrc_orig as a copy of a fresh .newsrc before downloading
and reading any messages.  It has only the groups:

alt.os.linux.slackware:
alt.test:
comp.lang.perl.misc:
perl.beginners:

each group with a colon at end

(I've edited .newsrc before, removing some of the message numbers
which then those messages show up again and can read again too.

I could cp .newsrc_orig .newsrc to start afresh.

-- 
Alan.