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From: reid@glacier.ARPA (Brian Reid)
Newsgroups: net.unix,net.news,net.wanted.sources
Subject: Re: rn again - seeing articles more than once
Message-ID: <2816@glacier.ARPA>
Date: Mon, 6-Jan-86 00:16:08 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan  6 00:16:08 1986
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Organization: Stanford University, Computer Systems Lab
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Summary: we have the inews patch installed, but it doesn't always work

I'm the guy who maintains netnews at Stanford, including Shasta where John
Interrante lives. I installed the rn/inews patches a long time ago. They
work some of the time, but not all of the time. Conor Rafferty and I have
spent quite a bit of time hunting down the bug, and we have decided that it
is not worth pursuing further, because 2.10.3 has the rn Xref code already
in it. I trust that it will work better there.

The Xref failure is somehow linked to unbatching, but not in any
deterministic way that I have been able to put my finger on. Since the
consequences of this bug are not dire, we have not devoted a lot of work to
fixing it.
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	Brian Reid	decwrl!glacier!reid
	Stanford	reid@SU-Glacier.ARPA