[952] in SIPB bug reports
xrn 6.7, RT 6.4R: checkpointing .newsrc file
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Mar 14 14:23:03 1990
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 90 14:22:29 -0500
From: Ken Raeburn <Raeburn@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: bug-sipb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Given that you don't get a second chance to save a .newsrc file when
exiting xrn, turning updateNewsrc on by default seems like a good
idea. This bit me last night; because I hadn't realized that my
tokens expired, none of the articles I read yesterday in any newsgroup
got marked as read.