Why does gnus-massaged .newsrc confuse other newsreaders?

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From: Where are the Prawns?
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 18:35

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Whenever I use gnus, then subsequently use trn (when I want to read a
newsgroup that has several hundred articles and don't have twenty
spare minutes to watch them all get threaded), trn complains about my
.newsrc, and spends several minutes doing something, I don't know
what.  No other news reader that I have used seems to provoke this.
Anyone have any idea what's happening here?

Also, any insight into what is going on when I try to read a newsgroup
and the threading phase barfs with the message, "symbol's value as
variable is void: THRU"?  This only happens with some newsgroups, and
trn seems to have no trouble with them.

-- jmc

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Subject: Why does gnus-massaged .newsrc confuse other newsreaders?
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