On 15 Jul 2009 19:02:09 GMT in Robert Lorenzini wrote:

Well it looks like they dropped all the alt.binaries when they
changed the name. No more alt.binaries.pictures.orchids or did
I miss something.

Did you use your old .jnewsrc?
If so, edit it, find the alt.binaries.pictures.orchids line and
delete everything after the space colon (": ") on the line.
If it's a "! " on the end of the line, you unsubscribed it.

As memory serves the name change also went hand in hand to a move

followups sent to eternal-september.support if you're having
additional problems.

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Chris Dukes