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From: rick@uunet.UU.NET (Rick Adams)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Passing on unwanted groups
Summary: nonsense
Message-ID: <101429@uunet.UU.NET>
Date: 15 Aug 90 14:15:42 GMT
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	B-news expire works in more-or-less the same fashion.  Manually
	removing an article doesn't affect the history, even after the
	article would normally have been expired.

	That is, under normal usage.  If you do an "expire -r" (rebuild
	database), expire doesn't look at the history file at all, and
	any articles no longer there have their history entries
	discarded.  Which is why it ain't a good idea to run B-news
	expire unless you're convinced that it's lost a lot of
	entries.

Bnews has saved old history when rebuilding since patch 15.

If you're going to pick on Bnews deficiencies, at least pick on the
real ones rather than imaginary ones.

--rick