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From: wisner@mica.Berkeley.EDU (Bill Wisner)
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Subject: Re:  Re: editing .newsrc
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Date: 15 Aug 89 19:37:57 GMT
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>Why bother editing .newsrc to do this?  A simpiler way

.. and much, much, MUCH slower, especially when using NNTP ..

>						        to get back all old
>messages while in a newsgroup is to type '1-$m'.  This marks every message
>from the begining to the end as unread.

Bill Wisner		wisner@mica.berkeley.edu	     ucbvax!mica!wisner