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- From: fenner@postscript.cs.psu.edu (Bill Fenner)
- Subject: Re: News/mail reader
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- References: <TeRauB3w165w@dogear.spk.wa.us> <Z4scuB14w165w@xocolatl.com> <1992Nov17.150618.21522@morpheus.bssi.bls.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 06:08:44 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov17.150618.21522@morpheus.bssi.bls.com> dawson@morpheus.bssi.bls.com (Willard Dawson) writes:
- |The proper solution to the join file reset problem is to fix Waffle! What
- |ought to occur, on the occasion that a user's join file indicates an article
- |higher than is available, is that Waffle ought to reset the join file line
- |to the highest numbered article in the group, such that that article is
- |lower-numbered than the previous entry in the join file.
-
- So when you delete all the messages in a newsgroup, and 100 articles come
- in, you think that the person who had read up to 1032 should have his JOIN
- pointer set to 100, so that he misses 99 new articles? Or 0, so he gets to
- read all 100 new messages?...
-
- Bill
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