[5204] in SIPB bug reports
Re: Problems with the net
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Tue Mar 14 12:10:43 1995
To: hartman@MIT.EDU
Cc: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 14 Mar 1995 09:38:22 EST."
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Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1995 12:06:34 EST
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> I emailed usenet@athena.... yesterday--I haven't heard a
> response--so I hope that someone can help me. My newsgroups are all
> screwed up. When I go into rn it takes a mail message that I got
> last week and line by line turns it into Bogus newsgroups. It
> killed the two newsgroups that I was subscribed to and now comes up
> with the attatched note.
I believe that these problems are due to bugs in rn which we haven't
precisely identified. I would recommend that you do the following:
1. Check your .newsrc file and make sure that it makes sense
(i.e. doesn't look like a mail message or anything). Each
line of the .newsrc file should consist of a newsgroup
name, a '!' or ':' depending on whether you're subscribed,
and a list of article numbers you have read in that
newsgroup.
2. Start using trn instead of rn. The user interface for trn
is similar to rn's, although it has some extra features.
I hope this helps.
