Frustrating behavior wrt .mailrc

[Joe Fineman]

I run Gnus v5.10.10 under Emacs 22.3.2 under Windows XP, for my many
sins.

My ~/.mailrc file defines a certain alias "fa" for an email address.
When I actually use that alias in sending mail, it instead brings up
an email address belonging to "fa" in a long-gone .mailrc file.  There
are no other .mailrc files in my system.

Is there any way to get rid of this pest?  Neither restarting Emacs
nor rebooting Windows does it.
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---  Joe Fineman    joe_f@verizon.net

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