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From: tale@turing.cs.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Checkgroups problem
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Date: 8 Aug 90 19:28:27 GMT
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In <1990Aug8.113753.3487@warwick.ac.uk> cudep@warwick.ac.uk (Ian Dickinson):

   Unfortunately, rn pl47 does care about flags being more than a single
   character, and as soon as you set a group to be =othergroup rn thinks
   that it is bogus - not good :-(  Looks like I'd better fix it.

I was the one who wrote the behaviour that way, and it doesn't have
anything to do with the flag being more than one character.  Perhaps
it should be something different, but for how I use = it was totally
appropriate.  If I am refiling rec.fitness to misc.fitness, for
example, it means I don't want rec.fitness to appear at my site.  So
why should rn think it exists?

(Relevant code sections are in addng.c and ngdata.c, just in case you
want to hack at it anyway.)
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