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From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.groups
Subject: Re: why news.announce.conferences shows up as so popular
Message-ID: <3228@phri.UUCP>
Date: 4 Apr 88 01:20:30 GMT
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Reply-To: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY)
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reid@decwrl.UUCP (Brian Reid) writes:
> if a person looks at news.announce.conferences once a year, he is counted
> as an active reader, because he has an unexpired message marked as read. 
> 
> There's really no way around this.

	Sure there is.  For each article marked as read, see if the
modification time on the file in /usr/spool/news is within the default
expiration time for that system.  The cost to do this may turn out to be
prohibitive, but it's certainly possible.
-- 
Roy Smith, {allegra,cmcl2,philabs}!phri!roy
System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute
455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016