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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: New .newsrc format [was Dynamic "smart" expiration?]
Message-ID: <-B+6U6ggpc2@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 7 Jan 90 15:04:37 GMT
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Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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> why not just let each newsreader use the
> bookkeeping method it wants.

Because then you can't use more than one news reader program. I use readnews,
rn, and vnews at different times and for different reasons. I'm sure glad they
all use .newsrc.

But I'd be willing to hack them to accept and maintain extra feilds at the end
of a .newsrc line:

	noise.froup: arti,ic-les; flag=value; flag=; ...

It's called upward compatibility...
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