message number change to eternal.september causes Xnews to confuse "read" messages

[Rahul]

I transitioned from motzarella to eternal.september but in the process my
Xnews client seems to be confused and is marking the whole chunk of
messages in "red" as it thinks those are "read messages".

From another discussion on the news.software.readers I discovered that this
is due to the message-numbering mismatch between the old and new servers.

ANy workarounds?

--
Rahul

[Bert Hyman]

In news:Xns9C3D73E40EB4666...@188.40.43.213 Rahul
<nos...@nospam.invalid> wrote:

From the subscribed newsgroups list, select all the groups, then go to
the "Group" menu and select "Clear Read and Keep" which will reset the
groups, marking all articles as unread.

This will only reset the groups you're subscribed to; you could do the
same from the "All Groups" list, or just delete the
"eternal-september.newsrc" file from your Xnews directory and start
over.

Either way, you get to start over in all the groups, some of which might
have thousands of articles.

--
Bert Hyman St. Paul, MN be...@iphouse.com

[_...@jeff_relf.seattle.invalid]

When I left-click News.Software.Readers my newsReader updates
it using my primary server ― a right-click uses the secondary server.

Luu Tran, the author of xNews, should use a list of Message-IDs
― not article numbers ― to decide what to downLoad next.

This way, you can update a newsGroup via whichEver server,
with whatEver article-numbering, on-the-fly.
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My useNet client is called “X.ZIP”. No one but me can operate it.
As far as I know, no one but me has ever tried to operate it.
I promote hand-rolled newsReaders, not X.ZIP per se.

When creating or updating a newsGroup,
it puts thousands of posts into a single .TXT(text) file;
this way, my code editor(Visual Studio) can toy with it.

“ JeffRelf.F-M.FM/X.ZIP ”, includes:

JeffRelf.F-M.FM/X.TXT
JeffRelf.F-M.FM/X.EXE
JeffRelf.F-M.FM/X.CPP
JeffRelf.F-M.FM/Visual_Studio_Macros.TXT
JeffRelf.F-M.FM/Games.EXE
JeffRelf.F-M.FM/Dif.EXE
JeffRelf.F-M.FM/_Crap_.REG
JeffRelf.F-M.FM/userContent.CSS

X.TXT is the settings file, including C++-style //comments, help.
X.EXE is the newsReader. X.CPP is the source code, Visual C++ 9.
ScreenShot of X.ZIP showing selected glyphs:
JeffRelf.F-M.FM/UTF-8.PNG

Games.EXE is a Mindless, semiRandom version of “Chess”.
Dif.EXE compares two plain-text files. Unicode is supported.
Example of how to run it from a .BAT file:
start Dif.EXE prevX.CPP X.CPP

_Crap_.REG has some registry settings I use.
userContent.CSS, for FireFox 3, controls the format of webPages.