karish@mindcrf.UUCP (Chuck Karish) (08/18/90)
In article <1990Aug15.164651.26664@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes: |In article <101429@uunet.UU.NET| rick@uunet.UU.NET (Rick Adams) writes: | ||Bnews has saved old history when rebuilding since patch 15. | |C News, in fact, doesn't. I am debating changing this, but it's not |entirely obvious that it's a good thing. The trouble is that there are |two situations in which one wants to rebuild history: to pick up articles |thought to be missing (the degenerate case of this is when you have no |history file at all!), and to recover after the history file gets horribly |mangled somehow. In the former case you want to save old history; in the |latter you don't. It is probably necessary to distinguish the two cases. Why the dilemma? Let the administrator decide. In case 2, (s)he just moves or deletes the old history file before starting. No special feature is required to take this into account. Note that the action desired for case 2 is the same as for the degenerate form of case 1. -- Chuck Karish karish@mindcraft.com Mindcraft, Inc. (415) 323-9000