wisner@hayes.fai.alaska.edu (Bill Wisner) (07/22/90)
Why doesn't C News checkgroups check for proper moderated status on each newsgroup as does B News checkgroups? Bill Wisner <wisner@hayes.fai.alaska.edu> Gryphon Gang Fairbanks AK 99775 bnug, dude yeah .
henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) (07/22/90)
In article <1990Jul22.005650.18791@hayes.fai.alaska.edu> wisner@hayes.fai.alaska.edu (Bill Wisner) writes: >Why doesn't C News checkgroups check for proper moderated status on >each newsgroup as does B News checkgroups? Because when Geoff wrote C News checkgroups, he was working more or less in the dark... because there is *no specification* for how checkgroups works or what it does, and the B News code is cryptic. Geoff is working on this (first the specification, then a rewrite of the C News checkgroups; for obvious reasons, they must be done in that order). Holding of breath is not advised, but it *is* coming. -- NFS: all the nice semantics of MSDOS, | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology and its performance and security too. | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry