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From: phil@east.Berkeley.EDU (Phil Lapsley)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: Can 'rrn' check for new news?
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Date: 15 May 88 23:28:15 GMT
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rrn can't check for new news as distributed.  On startup it snarfs
the active file from the server and makes a local copy.  Since the
local copy doesn't change, rrn doesn't think there is new news.

Next release, I guess.

						Phil