Re: '!' in newsrc

Phil Crown (pcrown@airmail.net)
Fri, 05 Jul 1996 20:55:54 -0500

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>In article <7fA3xo3qBGaU091yn@airmail.net>,
>pcrown@airmail.net (Phil Crown) wrote:
>
>>I just had something change every entry in my newsrc file to '!', which
>>makes it impossible to get any news.
>>
>>Does this happen if souper tries to get news while the news server may
>>be having problems?
>>
>>This has happened two or three times, but it is very rare. Seems like
>>it happened most often when my new server was having problems awhile
>>back.
>
>I have had the same thing(s) happen to me, with Souper95, when my
>ISP's news server is having problems, or when I have a DUN connection
>that is not working properly (at the time). I just go back to
>.newsrc, edit and replace each instance of "!" with ":", save it, and
>try again.

Is this a bug or a feature? :-)

-- 
Phil Crown <pcrown@airmail.net>

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