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From: Ronald.Khoo@ibmpcug.CO.UK
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Cnews active min field (WAS Re: Cnews setuid(geteuid))
Message-ID: <10947@ibmpcug.UUCP>
Date: 24 Jun 89 19:30:30 GMT
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In article <1989Jun20.213129.8095@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>In article <10931@ibmpcug.UUCP> Ronald.Khoo@ibmpcug.co.uk writes:
>>Another question: Why does only the max field in active get expanded to
>>		  10 digits but not the min field? (I'm obviously missing
>>		  something obvious here, but I can't find it in the
>>		  docs/READMEs)
>
>This is more or less an oversight.  We consider the min field to be a
>silly kludge for broken news readers, and pay very little attention to it.
>So we missed that one.

Uh..  I must'a missed something here - You recommend lwall's rn don't you?
So do I - and I'm sure that it does use the min field - at least it seems
to notice if I change a few by hand :-)

If you have time, I wouldn't mind a quick two-line explanation of how you
would replace the min field's function.

Not a flame, Henry - I appreciate your many and varied contributions to
the net, and now especially a nice lean & mean news transport - I'm just
confused - and I don't want to install new software while I'm confused,
but I'll kill for that fast expire!

Thanks for listening.