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From: lmb@vicom.com (Larry Blair)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Cnews active min field (WAS Re: Cnews setuid(geteuid))
Message-ID: <1989Jun28.172724.15420@vicom.com>
Date: 28 Jun 89 17:27:24 GMT
References: <1989Jun25.174800.13276@utzoo.uucp> <10931@ibmpcug.UUCP> <1989Jun20.213129.8095@utzoo.uucp> <10947@ibmpcug.UUCP>
Reply-To: lmb@vicom.COM (Larry Blair)
Organization: VICOM Systems Inc., San Jose, CA
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In article <1989Jun25.174800.13276@utzoo.uucp>, henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
> Any sensible news reader has
> to be prepared to go in and read the directory itself to find out what
> articles are really present.  Given that, what use is min?

Apparently the newly posted NN newsreader isn't sensible.  It maintains
an article database on which a crude expire is performed, based on the
min field.  A full rebuild of the database is too expensive to do every
night.
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Larry Blair   ames!vsi1!lmb   lmb@vicom.com