Path: utzoo!utstat!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!mcsun!ukc!warwick!cudep From: cudep@warwick.ac.uk (Ian Dickinson) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: Checkgroups problem Message-ID: <1990Aug9.152803.18866@warwick.ac.uk> Date: 9 Aug 90 15:28:03 GMT References: <1990Aug8.113753.3487@warwick.ac.uk> <}10$6V#@rpi.edu> Sender: news@warwick.ac.uk (Network news) Organization: Team Limpid's Death Mollusc From Hell - The Good Old Boys Lines: 30 In article <}10$6V#@rpi.edu> tale@turing.cs.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) writes: >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. I should have looked at the code before assuming really :-( >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. That's fair enough, but what about a name change of a long established group? >So why should rn think it exists? So that old articles can still be read by people who aren't regular enough readers to have been uptodate when I alias the group. (This worked sensibly when we ran Bnews, using the aliases file) Why should they lose all those articles just because rn won't let them read them? The articles expire soon enough anyway. Cheers, -- \/ato. Ian Dickinson. GNU's not got BSE. When I grow up I want to be a vato@cu.warwick.ac.uk Plinth. Water Elemental. Shower me! vato@tardis.cs.ed.ac.uk Sabeq. gdd046@cck.cov.ac.uk "Nuke me tender, nuke me good!"