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From: js2j@mhuxt.UUCP (sonntag)
Newsgroups: net.jokes.d
Subject: Help!  READNEWS won't let me read jokes!
Message-ID: <236@mhuxt.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 15-Aug-84 10:59:17 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 15 10:59:17 1984
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      I know that this isn't quite the right group for this problem, but I
didn't know where to put it.
	This is the problem:  Whenever I get to net.jokes, for the last few
days, it starts me at article 8193.  If I say 'n', it just prints:

11 lines [ynq]?                     or something like that, anyway.

If I respond with 'n' again, I get the same response, ad infinitum.
If I read article 8193, I get the above message printed at the end of the 
'joke', and I'm back in the strange loop again.

I thought I could fix this up by editing my .newsrc file.  I found the line
for net.jokes, and it went something like this:
net.jokes: 1-8192,XXXX-8205,XXXX-8250

(the 'X's are digits I don't remember.)  Anyway, I made the line look like
this:
net.jokes: 1-8194

	But it didn't help.  I got the same response as always, and when I
looked at my .newsrc file again, it had the same old line for net.jokes
as it had before!  (No, I didn't forget to write the file after I edited it.
That was the first thing I suspected.)

Please, if somebody out there knows how I can fix this or get around it, drop
me some mail at ihnp4!mhuxl!mhuxt!js2j.  Thanx in advance.

Jeff Sonntag