>tdb@delta1.deltanet.com (Tom D. Baccanti) wrote:
>>I was wondering if there is a problem with deletion of the
>>news.dat file? this would assist me in saving disk space while
>>using version 090.
>
>Nope, I do it quite often. Just delete news.dat and then run rebuild -o to
>trim the overview files too.
I also regularly delete the news.dat file and have had no problems
provided that I run rebuild afterwards with both the -o and -u switches
"rebuild -ou"
prior to importing another packet. If I run rebuild with just the -o
switch, a large percentage of the articles in the new packet are
seemingly marked as read upon import.
-- Marcos Mirabal (mmirabal@ritz.mordor.com)