halle1@houxz.UUCP (J.HALLE) (02/22/84)
Recently I have been reading Mark Horton's latest net.announce ment. Even if I read it, or even if I edit my .newsrc, it still keeps coming up. The article number is the same each time, so it is not a multiple posting. It just refuses to stay read. (Shades of Rod Serling.) Is this a bug of some sort, or is this a weird feature of net.announce?
mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton) (02/23/84)
You're the second person from Holmdel to have the problem. I wonder what's going on? The problem is you have two copies of net.announce in your .newsrc. Delete one and the problem will be fixed. (No, I don't know how it got like that.) Mark
greg@sdcsvax.UUCP (02/27/84)
((Our outgoing news feed has been down, so I don't know if this got out. My appologies if you have seen it before.)) It seems to be a function of the fact that net.announce is the first line in your .newsrc file. My first line used to be sdnet.general, and it would happen there. When net.announce started, it became the first line (after the options line, of course), and now it happens to net.announce. It is irritating, but net.announce is so lightly traveled that it is not too bothersome. It seems to happen whenever the list of options is reordered, which causes the .newsrc file to be resorted, which leaves an extra copy of the initial line somewhere in the file. It can be fixed by getting your news wizard to put in a dummy group as the first one which never moves around. (Did somebody say "KLUDGE??")