From: utzoo!henry
Newsgroups: hacknews
Title: readnews(1) bug fixed 
Article-I.D.: utzoo.2487
Posted: Wed Sep 22 17:55:28 1982
Received: Wed Sep 22 17:55:28 1982

Fixed a long-known bug in readnews(1):  an interrupt during the reading
of the .newsrc file could cause a truncated version of same to get
rewritten.  Readnews now insists on reading the entire file.