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From: jerry@oliveb.UUCP (Jerry Aguirre)
Newsgroups: net.news.b
Subject: Re: Sorting batches helpful?
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Date: Thu, 26-Jun-86 21:02:52 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 26 21:02:52 1986
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Reply-To: jerry@oliveb.UUCP (Jerry Aguirre)
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>Alphabetic sorting of the batch file will send the group "control"
>before just about anything else.  Thus, cancel messages would almost
>always arrive before the article they're supposed to cancel.
>
>(Are canceled articles transmitted?  Hard to take them out of the
>batch file once they're in...)
>
>Don Speck	speck@vlsi.caltech.edu	seismo!cit-vax!speck

The articles may be listed in the batch file but if they have been
canceled then they have been removed from the system and the batcher
won't be able to find them.  If you have ever monitored the batcher you
will get messages complaining about missing files.  These are presumably
articles that were canceled.

If they have already been batched then they are past the sorting point
anyway.

I still think they should be sorted by posting date, not file name.

					Jerry Aguirre @ Olivetti ATC
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