On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Herbert Xu wrote: > I too am in favour of that. But IMHO there needs to be some means of > preserving the active file at least. I have seen many complaints about nntp > clients thinking nuking .newsrc files because nntpcache got restarted and the > remote server was temporarily unavailable. Yes, this is a big problem for me. I've had to get in the habit of making sure that my main news server is up before restarting. Evan