what does [number] after a folder mean?

[Bernie Cosell]

I just added a newsgroup [agent 8 on win10] and it is the folder list as
newsgroup [2]
what does that mean?

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[John Dillinger]

On Tue, 12 Apr 2022 21:26:25 -0700 (PDT), Bernie Cosell
<ber...@fantasyfarm.com> wrote:

>I just added a newsgroup [agent 8 on win10] and it is the folder list as
> newsgroup [2]
>what does that mean?

It means you have two newsgroup subscribed to by different news
servers or by one if you have double subscribed to the same newsgroup
on a Usenet server.

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