The documentation says this file uses message-IDs to mark messages read 
on another server�a great concept�but I've never seen it actually work. 
The Help warns that it may get cumbersomely large. Mine never grows.
Just once I saw a fleeting dialogue telling me something (it was very 
fleeting) might be due to database corruption and to simply trash the 
file. 
I've done that and a new, no-growing, unresponsive file gets created (in 
Users/<myshortname>/Library/Preferences/MT-Newswatcher Prefs �. 
Somewhere I must have set some pref wrong, put something in the wrong 
place (the app is in the main Applications folder), but what? Everything 
else about this beauty programme works a treat. Any suggestions about 
getting this bit up to speed?
TIA

In article 
<Garbageed.trashhanna-FBED28.16585210052004@nr-tor01.bellnexxia.net>,
 TakeoutGarbage&Trash <Garbageed.trashhanna@sympatico.ca> wrote:

> The documentation says this file uses message-IDs to mark messages read 
> on another server�a great concept�but I've never seen it actually work. 
> The Help warns that it may get cumbersomely large. Mine never grows.
> Just once I saw a fleeting dialogue telling me something (it was very 
> fleeting) might be due to database corruption and to simply trash the 
> file. 
> I've done that and a new, no-growing, unresponsive file gets created (in 
> Users/<myshortname>/Library/Preferences/MT-Newswatcher Prefs �. 
> Somewhere I must have set some pref wrong, put something in the wrong 
> place (the app is in the main Applications folder), but what? Everything 
> else about this beauty programme works a treat. Any suggestions about 
> getting this bit up to speed?
> TIA

There's a Pref for it in Preferences->Article Management.  "Mark 
articles read that have been read on another server".

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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In article <barmar-AD6240.18304610052004@comcast.ash.giganews.com>,
 Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> wrote:

> In article 
> <Garbageed.trashhanna-FBED28.16585210052004@nr-tor01.bellnexxia.net>,
>  TakeoutGarbage&Trash <Garbageed.trashhanna@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> 
> > The documentation says this file uses message-IDs to mark messages read 
> > on another server�a great concept�but I've never seen it actually work. 
> > The Help warns that it may get cumbersomely large. Mine never grows.
> > Just once I saw a fleeting dialogue telling me something (it was very 
> > fleeting) might be due to database corruption and to simply trash the 
> > file. 
> > I've done that and a new, no-growing, unresponsive file gets created (in 
> > Users/<myshortname>/Library/Preferences/MT-Newswatcher Prefs �. 
> > Somewhere I must have set some pref wrong, put something in the wrong 
> > place (the app is in the main Applications folder), but what? Everything 
> > else about this beauty programme works a treat. Any suggestions about 
> > getting this bit up to speed?
> > TIA
> 
> There's a Pref for it in Preferences->Article Management.  "Mark 
> articles read that have been read on another server".

Sorry, stupid of me. That's my problem. The Pref is checked, the DB 
never changes, and nothing read on another server winds up 
marked/deleted or anything.