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From: umerin@photon.stars.flab.fujitsu.junet (Masanobu UMEDA)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus
Subject: updating problem with gnus3.10
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Date: 8 Feb 89 02:31:32 GMT
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   Date: Fri, 3 Feb 89 12:49:11 EST
   From: Skip Montanaro <flab!fgw!uunet!steinmetz!sprite!montnaro>
   Posted-Date: Fri, 3 Feb 89 12:49:11 EST

   I had a similar problem when I first subscribed to the new comp.sys.sun. I
   had unsubscribed when it first went no-digest, resulting in a line like:

	   comp.sys.sun! 1-1734

   Later, when I subscribed, I got an extra line like:

	   comp.sys.sun: 1-250

   When reading ~/.newsrc, its data structures would be affected last by the
   second line, but when writing it would update the first line. It always
   thought I hadn't read anything recently. Fix was (of course) to remove the
   second line and change the ! to a : in the first.

   I don't know if it was an accident on my part that caused the duplicate
   lines or a bug in gnus.

I suppose it was an accident, but the duplications should be checked
by GNUS.

The duplications of newsgroups will be checked properly in the next
version of GNUS. However, this change will make reading of the raw
startup file (.newsrc) slower.

Masanobu UMEDA
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