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  Re: Newslink oddity
  By: poindexter FORTRAN to All on Sat Jan 03 2026 09:05 am

 > OK, so I deleted a message area. Downloaded a new QWK packet, since
 > making changes in mid-QWK process can mix up where the replies land.
 >
 > I posted a new message in alt.bbs.ads.
 >
 > Downloaded a QWK packet this morning and it was huge - looked at the
 > packet, and alt.bbs.ads in my packet contains my message, a couple of
 > other new messages, and the entire contents of alt.sysadmin.recovery.
 >
 > I see the messages in there, when I log on locally - each with the
 > header From Newsgroup: "alt.sysadmin.recovery"

You see those messages in where?

 > I am running an older version of newslink.cfg from the mods folder, I
 > needed to auto-approve posts to a.s.r.

That sounds like QWK conference re-numbering (because you deleted a message
area) and not a newslink issue.
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