Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: and speaking of checkgroups
Message-ID: <1990Jul22.030040.11855@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990Jul22.005650.18791@hayes.fai.alaska.edu>
Date: Sun, 22 Jul 90 03:00:40 GMT

In article <1990Jul22.005650.18791@hayes.fai.alaska.edu> wisner@hayes.fai.alaska.edu (Bill Wisner) writes:
>Why doesn't C News checkgroups check for proper moderated status on
>each newsgroup as does B News checkgroups?

Because when Geoff wrote C News checkgroups, he was working more or less
in the dark... because there is *no specification* for how checkgroups
works or what it does, and the B News code is cryptic.

Geoff is working on this (first the specification, then a rewrite of the
C News checkgroups; for obvious reasons, they must be done in that order).
Holding of breath is not advised, but it *is* coming.
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