Version 2.0b9 
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July 22, 1994.


In a recent beta version, we added a feature where NewsWatcher notifies
you after it finishes a long operation in the background by blinking its
small icon in the upper right corner of your screen. Another feature of
NewsWatcher is that it automatically closes the connection to your news
server if the program has been idle for 10 minutes (to keep your news
admin happy, always an important consideration). The connection is
reopened automatically the next time it is needed. Unfortunately, these
two features collided, and you were getting notified when the 10 minute
idle close happened. This is confusing, to say the least, and has been
fixed.

When you quit NewsWatcher, it writes your preferences and any changes to
the full group list to the preferences file. NewsWatcher now reports any
errors which occur during this update of the prefs file. A few people
have reported problems with NewsWatcher saving the full group list. This
won't fix the problem, but I hope it will help track it down. Please let
me know if you have been having this problem, if you still have the
problem with this 2.0b9 version, and whether or not you see any error
messages when you quit.