[net.news.b] 2.10 commentary

smk@linus.UUCP (05/24/83)

I couldn't find it off-hand, but if what people say is true about
2.10 doing access() or stat() on all articles in a newsgroup until
it finds one, why not just have the code read in the directory
entries (just the numerical ones) and sort them at worst  -- keep
track of the smallest/largest at best?  Or maybe I missed the problem.

Bugs I've noticed:
The Last article bug fix works except when I do a `-' in response
to the last article.  It then gets confused in reverse (of what the original
bug was).

For digest reading (which is a fantasic addition), typing a `?' to find the
options gave them to me but then I was kicked out of the digest reading.
I was on the last article of the digest at the time.  It should have
brought me back to the last digest article again.

I hear than in expire, it does not expire articles with the old-style
format.  This is in both expires (mine had additions, not changes to the
existing one).  I'm not sure of this, but I'm passing it on.