Wayne Davison <trn@clari.net>

> I have a user who just switched to trn from tin. Some groups that show
> up fine in tin, trn calls bogus and marks them as unsubscribed in
> .newsrc, so if he goes back into tin after not being able to read them
> in trn, he has to resubscribe again. Any ideas?

What version of trn are you using?  In older versions trn used to
complain about redirected newsgroups as bogus (those with '=' in the 4th
field of the active file), but a modern trn reports the redirection and
allows the user to finish reading the remaining articles before they
expire.  It might be that the groups are on their last legs.

The only other thing I can think of is that you're not using the same
server for both tin and trn, but then you'd REALLY be messed up using
the same .newsrc file due to the lack of a common numbering system.

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