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In AmigaUUCP, when you run Trimnews, it just deletes old articles, but
leaves the article numbering where it was.  The result is that you end up
with numbers in the thousands fairly quickly, and they never seem to go
down!  And when that happens, DNews becomes VERY slow.

In an attempt to correct this, I wrote a renumber program which moves the
numbers down, updating the .dnewsrc file and the .next file as it does.
However, now I get an error message from BatchNews saying that files are
missing.

What I wonder is, why does BatchNews care?  I'm not feeding this stuff down
to anyone else; my only link is to the place I got those files from in the
first place.  Is this just an artifact of the way that messages are
unpacked, or does it indicate a real problem?  Can I just ignore those
messages?  If not, do I have to also update numbering in some other file,
and if so, what?

Alternately, can someone suggest a better newsreader that avoids these
problems, and how to get it?  (I've asked this one before but my post may
not have gotten out.)

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*  Frank J. Perricone  *  fjp@crystal.mv.com  *  fidonet#1:325/611.0  *