When I installed 6.0 all my old inn config files got completely blown away because those files were NOT marked as config files in the newer inn rpm file. This means my active file, history file ... basically everything in /var/lib/news ... got blown away with no "rpmsave" file. If you "rpm -qcp inn-1*" on an older (i.e., Red Hat 5.2) inn rpm file, you will see a bunch of /var/lib/news config files. Doing this command on any 6.0 inn rpm shows *no* files in /var/lib/news. Upgrading inn (and upgrading Red Hat from 5.2 to 6.0) SHOULD NOT blow away one's existing active file!!!
Fixed (by marking /var/lib/news/* as "%config(noreplace)") in inn-2.2-13. Thanks for the report.