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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!news.funet.fi!network.jyu.fi!jybox!otto
- From: otto@jybox.jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela)
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
- Subject: Re: News/mail reader
- Message-ID: <oXckuB14w165w@jybox.jyu.fi>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 92 02:37:47 EET
- References: <Bxy92L.5oC@cs.psu.edu>
- Organization: Jyvaskyla Electronic Mailbox
- Lines: 17
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- fenner@postscript.cs.psu.edu (Bill Fenner) writes:
-
- > 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?...
-
- The file deletion mechanism should be enhanced to either *not* delete
- all messages (compare with expire) or update people's join files.
- The only valid reason IMHO to delete messages is the standard expire
- mechanism. Message renumbering is a kludge anyway, and should support
- join file updating.
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