Path: utzoo!yunexus!ists!mike
From: mike@ists (Mike Clarkson)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: followups munged by "l" command
Keywords: news.software.b
Message-ID: <161@ists>
Date: 12 Mar 88 09:45:47 GMT
Article-I.D.: ists.161
Posted: Sat Mar 12 04:45:47 1988
References: <109@hawkmoon.MN.ORG>
Organization: I.S.T.S.
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In article <109@hawkmoon.MN.ORG>, det@hawkmoon.MN.ORG (Derek E. Terveer) writes:
> If i'm reading an article and i then type "l" to get a list of the rest of the
> unread articles (obstensibly to see if my followup that i'm about to make has
> already been nullified by someone else's) ... and discover that i can
> followup anyway and type an "f" to followup, the included text will not be the
> article that i was reading that is currently displayed on the screen, but
> rather the last article listed in the summary produced by the "l" command.
> Most annoying.  There doesn't seem to be any way around this but to exit News
> and re-enter.

(Note: I assume you're referring to vnews.)
The workaround is to explicitly select the article again with 123A for article
123, then followup.  But where's the bug?  This never happened before I
(fool that I am) upgraded from patch level 8 to 14.

Any ideas?




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