That's the most likely reason for having these taking up space. All
advice in this message is from memory, since I've used the 0.9x almost
since it came out.
>Questions:
>--(1) Is there a command which will rid me of these albatrosses? or...
Yes, DEL 9686.
>--(2) Will I cause any problems for YARN if I just manually delete
> these files or delete sections of them with a text editor??
Deleting is no problem, but edit with care. Each message has a header
indicating the message size that WILL get eaten if you edit with a
text editor. If you use an editor that preserves these headers, it
should be OK, but I'd wait until all messages you are interested in
have expired, then delete them.
You also might be able to run a rebuild, mark all messages in the old
newsgroups as read then expire -r the offending newsgroup. The down
side to this is your expire dates get reset. And this assumes the old
newsgroups are still in your ACTIVE file - else you'll have to run
newgroup.
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