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From: mcmahon@tgv.com (John 'Fast-Eddie' McMahon)
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Subject: NEWGROUPS
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Date: 15 Mar 91 00:29:48 GMT
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In article <1991Mar14.074836.19931@watmath.waterloo.edu>, gamiddle@watmath.waterloo.edu (Guy Middleton) writes:

#If I add a bunch of groups (say 100 or so) on my server, rrn on the clients
#takes forever to think about them.  It grabs the active file from the server,
#and looks at each group in turn.  Would be nice it if used the NEWGROUPS verb
#instead.  Does anybody have mods to do this?  Thanks.

The last time I looked at the RFC, I got the impression that NEWGROUPS was
unreliable and that it was being "discouraged" in favor of comparing a current
LIST command versus the "newsrc" file.  Is this no longer the case ?

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