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From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: This looks like a job for Perl Man (NNTP)
Message-ID: <18409:Sep2703:08:1290@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
Date: 27 Sep 90 03:08:12 GMT
References: <20550@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU>
Organization: IR
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In article <20550@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> pvo@sapphire.OCE.ORST.EDU (Paul O'Neill) writes:
> remap_news would read a user's .newsrc file, connect to oldserver and convert
> read articles to message #'s, connect to newserver and convert those
> message #'s to article numbers and then construct a new .newsrc file.

Because certain people don't believe in accurate min article fields,
it's safer to convert the unread articles.

---Dan