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From: adeboer@gjetor.geac.COM (Anthony DeBoer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: newsreaders may ignore comp.unix.wizards
Message-ID: <1991Feb25.142140.4552@gjetor.geac.COM>
Date: 25 Feb 91 14:21:40 GMT
References: <2590@root44.co.uk>
Organization: Geac J&E Systems Ltd.
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In article <2590@root44.co.uk> gwc@root.co.uk (Geoff Clare) writes:
>I was curious that the group had apparently not been re-created and checked
>in the active file on our system, only to find that it was there after all.
>A little investigation revealed that my newsreader (nn) had ignored it
>because my .newsrc still had a line left over from the last incarnation of
>comp.unix.wizards showing articles 1-19898 as read.  As the re-created
>group started again from article number 1, nn has been treating all
>articles as already read.  Other newsreaders may be doing the same.

Now, isn't this the sort of thing that would only be caught by a wizard? This
deletion-and-recreation fiasco in comp.unix.wizards might ultimately have had
the benefit of keeping a lot of non-wizards out of the group... :-) Sort of
like the forgeries-only setup in alt.hackers, but in the read direction
instead of the write direction.
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