ISP changed News Server

[Andrew Cowper]

In their wisdom my ISP upgraded its NNTP server and didn't tell me.

Eventually I twigged when all articles I tried to read showed up as
expired or cancelled.

So I checked their support pages, found out what had happened, and was
advised that some users may need to unsubscribe and resubscribe to
their groups.

I tried this and I must have been feeling a bit flustered because it
all went horribly wrong. I could't persuade gnus to forget any history
of my interaction with a group and start from scratch. I ended up with
multiple instances of groups in the Group buffer, some subscribed and
some unsubscribed. I got huge amounts of available articles in the
Group buffer and when I tried to catch up it said no unread articles.

In short it was a mess.

I have deleted ~/News and ~/.newsrc.eld and started again.

But the question is - What should I have done?

Thanks
Andrew Cowper


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