In article <b5wl1gzkgGbA092yn@efn.org>, you wrote:
>
>I don't know if this will work, but try:
>add the groups back in with newgroup,
>rebuild the overview files with rebuild -o,
>subscribe and catch the groups up (C in newsgroup select in yarn),
>and expiring them with expire -r newsgroupname
>
Yes, I've now had some success with this method, and managed to
delete of quite a lot of articles. However some strange things
happen. Some of the groups don't get added to the list when I run
NEWGROUP, and some of the articles pop-up in the JUNK group. I think
I probably get better results, deleting one group at a time, but it's
getting a bit tedious!
>Of course, if you've already expired everything else, you can just delete
>news.dat and then run rebuild -o.
Unfortunately I need to keep some of the groups, although I'm tempted
to delete the lot, and start again.
Cheers
Clive
Hitchin, North Hertfordshire, UK