dennis@rlgvax.UUCP (Dennis Bednar) (01/13/86)
Is it possible that vnews (readnews, etc.) can skip over a
*new* article recently received which happens to have the same
article number of an article marked as "has been read before"
in your .newsrc file? I suppose this is not too much of
a problem if it takes an extremely long time for the same
article numbers to recycle.
If so, then perhaps each entry in .newsrc should also be marked
with the "last time anything in this newsgroup was read by this
user", and to intially check if there are any articles newer
than this time, and if so, consider them as "unread" instead of
"read".
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Dennis Bednar Computer Consoles Inc. Reston VA 703-648-3300
{decvax,ihnp4,harpo,allegra}!seismo!rlgvax!dennis UUCPguy@sun.uucp (Guy Harris) (01/13/86)
> Is it possible that vnews (readnews, etc.) can skip over a > *new* article recently received which happens to have the same > article number of an article marked as "has been read before" > in your .newsrc file? I suppose this is not too much of > a problem if it takes an extremely long time for the same > article numbers to recycle. Since article numbers are "int"s, they have at least the range 1 - 32767 and they take an *extremely* long time to recycle (net.unix-wizards, here at Sun, is around 17000). I'm moving this discussion to net.news, where it belongs. Guy Harris