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OCR: NewsWatcher 2.0 Open All References This command opens all the "references" for an article: the article to which this article is a followup, plus the article to which that article was followup, and so on back to the original article which started the thread. This command does not always work perfectly There are three problems. First, all news servers delete articles after *..* certain period of time. Thus, for a long thread articles at the beginning of the thread may no longer be available Second. most of the various programs pasn on the Internet to read and post news impose limit on how many references they can keep track of per article For long threads, you often find that early references get lost as articles get added to the end of the thread News Watcher is not able to locate or retri ...