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- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!dg-rtp!wolves!circle!lance
- From: lance%circle@wolves.durham.nc.us (Lance A. Brown)
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
- Subject: Re: News/mail reader
- Message-ID: <mLkmuB2w165w@circle.UUCP>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 92 00:18:33 EST
- References: <Bxy92L.5oC@cs.psu.edu>
- Organization: The Full Circle BBS, Raleigh NC
- Lines: 22
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- fenner@postscript.cs.psu.edu (Bill Fenner) writes:
-
- > In article <1992Nov17.150618.21522@morpheus.bssi.bls.com> dawson@morpheus.bss
- > |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
-
- Well, I consider the default Waffle behavior unfriendly at best. I would
- like to see Waffle maintain a file relating a newsgroup with the last
- article number for that group. Using this there is no need to ever reset
- someones join pointer. It would also make some other things faster.
-
- Lance
-