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- Path: sparky!uunet!iadpsa!iowegia!kjhoule
- From: kjhoule@iowegia.uucp (Kevin Houle)
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
- Subject: Re: News/mail reader
- Message-ID: <DwZeuB9w165w@iowegia.uucp>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 21:08:12 CST
- References: <Z4scuB14w165w@xocolatl.com>
- Distribution: world
- Organization: Iowegia Public Access Usenet/UUCP, Clive IA USA.
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- eoin@xocolatl.com (John F. Snyder) writes:
-
- > Is the resequencing a configurable option?
- >
- > I can see folks missing articles after the numbers have been
- > compressed and/or having their join pointers reset because it is now
- > greater then the actual number of the messages.
-
- Hmm.. no, it's not configurable. I run it immediately after unbatching
- news, before anyone has a chance to get in and read the articles, and
- most importantly, BEFORE BATCHING. Thus, say comp.bbs.waffle has 156
- articles in the directory.. you unbatch in another 50 articles or so,
- and then weed out duplicates. There is no way possible to have anything
- less than 156 articles left when done. (Except maybe the first time the
- program is run for a given directory) And, the first occurance of the
- article is always the one kept, so it doesn't screw up batching. The
- join pointers should be ok as well, as any duplicates are going to be
- numbered higher than the last read messages anyway.
-
-
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- Kevin Houle kjhoule@iowegia.uucp
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