Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: How crucial to run mkhistory?
Message-ID: <1991Jan30.170715.6541@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <sTikw3w163w@cellar.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 1991 17:07:15 GMT

In article <sTikw3w163w@cellar.UUCP> toad@cellar.UUCP (Tony Shepps) writes:
>... if the method of deletion would be simply to rm the article, not 
>to officially cancel it, how crucial would it be to run mkhistory to ensure 
>an accurate history file? ...

Not at all.  An "official" cancellation does precisely the same thing.
It's impossibly hard to update an entry in the middle of the history file
when the article is cancelled.
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