Xref: utzoo news.software.b:8467 news.software.readers:89 Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.software.readers Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: Two queries regarding C-News (one of which also hits rn) Message-ID: <1991Jun27.201257.29111@zoo.toronto.edu> Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1991 20:12:57 GMT References: Organization: U of Toronto Zoology In article francis@cis.ohio-state.edu (RD Francis) writes: >1) Evidently BNews inews (or at least our copy of it) checked for >multiple occurrences of the same group in the Newsgroups: line, and >removed them, so articles with lines like "Newsgroups: test,test" >would only get posted to test once. Now, articles with the Newsgroups >header described above get posted twice. Is this the way things are >supposed to be,or not? Our position tends to be that if the group appears twice, that means the article appears twice. There is some possibility this might eventually get optimized, but don't hold your breath. >2) This one is much more serious. rn users have, on two or three >separate occasions now, been told that all of their newsgroups were >bogus, and been unsubscribed from everything... No ideas about this one. There is inherently a short window during a delgroup when files are being rewritten, but I'd be surprised if rn was consistently hitting it. -- Lightweight protocols? TCP/IP *is* | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology lightweight already; just look at OSI. | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry