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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: This looks like a job for Perl Man (NNTP)
Message-ID: <9695@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 27 Sep 90 03:43:58 GMT
References: <20550@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> <18409:Sep2703:08:1290@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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In article <18409:Sep2703:08:1290@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes:
: 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.

Might be faster too, depending on how many unread newsgroups you keep in
your .newsrc.

The only problem I see with doing the unreads is that you would end up
marking as read any articles that happened to be on the new server but
not on the old, unless you constructed the universal set on the old server
(which is certainly doable, but a drag).

Larry