Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utcsrgv.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsrgv!dave From: dave@utcsrgv.UUCP (Dave Sherman) Newsgroups: net.news.b Subject: ARGGGGHGGGGH! Message-ID: <3439@utcsrgv.UUCP> Date: Mon, 5-Mar-84 09:37:03 EST Article-I.D.: utcsrgv.3439 Posted: Mon Mar 5 09:37:03 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 5-Mar-84 10:24:11 EST Organization: The Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto Lines: 18 I had my .newsrc trashed last night by running "readnews -x -n net.religion.jewish". This happened to me once before. Recovering a lost .newsrc takes forever! (The previous time I had also been showing some stuff to my wife, and ran "readnews -x -n net.tv -t AMC", which also destroyed my .newsrc. That was a few months ago and I wrote it off as an accident.) What got left in the .newsrc was a chunk of the last article in the newsgroup. Dammit, when I run readnews with -x, the .newsrc should NEVER be opened for writing! Still growling..... Dave Sherman Toronto -- {allegra,cornell,decvax,ihnp4,linus,utzoo}!utcsrgv!dave