Acbosgd.2170 net.news.b utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ihnss!cbosg!cbosgd!mark Mon Mar 22 20:17:51 1982 readnews -e From: mark (Mark Horton) There was lots of random flakyness with prerelease readnews -e. This is a good reason to switch to 2.0, since the expire command (no longer readnews -e) is believed to work and since you can get verbose output from it to find out what it's doing and why. Mark ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.