Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.software.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: synthesize a new newsgroup from a bunch of old ones.
Message-ID: <1990Jun1.170402.5503@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <EMV.90May31175714@urania.math.lsa.umich.edu>
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 90 17:04:02 GMT

In article <EMV.90May31175714@urania.math.lsa.umich.edu> emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) writes:
>... I'd be inclined to either hard link or symbolic link the
>article into the new directory and update the active file, but -- do
>you update the history file as well?

If you want expire to delete those new links for you, you'd better update
the history file.  Remember to do proper locking.  Updating history will
be expensive, given how big that file is.

If you want rn and the other news readers to mark those articles "read" in
all groups after you read them in one, you'd better update the Xref headers
in the articles too.

Otherwise, it's a bit strange but it sounds workable.
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