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(In reply to Rich Gray (:rbgray) from comment #78)
> When I initially started 2.7b4, my third news account, changed its name from the former value of news.individual.net (or just "individual.net") to
> rbg_sm+graysmail.comIndividual.netrbg_sm+graysmail.com.

Who changed? What kind of name at where was changed?
If you changed Server Settings/Server Name:, it's saved in realhostname and is used for server access. If this setting is changed, all news articles is downloaded again even when difference is server name only(all newsgroups are common), because abosolutely different news server. 
hostname is not changed once defined for any serverX.type. And password  manager's key=hostname instead of realhostname and I think it's applicable to News too. Please be careful in understanding phenomenon if userid/password is relevant and you changed Server Name: setting.

Following is my news account definitions in my Tb profile for testing.
> user_pref("mail.server.server5.name", "news1 on news.mozilla.org");
> user_pref("mail.server.server5.type", "nntp");
> user_pref("mail.server.server5.hostname", "x.x.x");
> user_pref("mail.server.server5.realhostname", "news.mozilla.org");
> user_pref("mail.server.server5.newsrc.file", "C:\\ ... \\News\\x.x.x.rc");
>
> user_pref("mail.server.server7.name", "news.opera.com");
> user_pref("mail.server.server7.type", "nntp");
> user_pref("mail.server.server7.hostname", "news.mozilla.org");
> user_pref("mail.server.server7.realhostname", "news.opera.com");
> user_pref("mail.server.server7.newsrc.file", "C:\\ ... \\News\\news.mozilla.org.rc");
Because of above setting, I frequently try to look into \news.mozilla.org.rc when I want to see .rc file content for news.mozilla.org :-)

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Title:
  Thunderbird sometimes marks whole newsgroups as read

Status in Mozilla Thunderbird Mail and News:
  Fix Released
Status in “thunderbird” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I was tracking the upstream bug report #695309 for this issue, which
  has affected Thunderbird 8.0, the version in Oneiric. The problem has
  just been patched upstream in trunk and will make it into Thunderbird
  12 when that releases (in May, presumably too late for Precise). I
  filed this bug report to make sure that the change gets noticed and
  backported to Oneiric post-haste, as it's a pretty major usability
  failing and there was no bug on LP that was tracking this upstream bug
  that I could find.

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