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Re: ietf-nntp New wording on article numbers

Tom Limoncelli <tal@plts.org> Mon, 30 December 1996 23:00 UTC

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From: Tom Limoncelli <tal@plts.org>
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Subject: Re: ietf-nntp New wording on article numbers
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Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 17:55:49 -0500 (EST)
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If there are no articles in a newsgroup, the counters
should not be reset to zero.

What about the newsgroup with one announcement per week?  On week #1,
the article is "1".  I read it and my .newsrc contains "groupname: 1".
Then that expires 4-5 days later.  On day 6 the counter is reset to 0.
Now a new post (week #2) comes in and is assigned article number "1".
My newsreader won't see that article.

I think this is an optimization that we don't need.  If INN does
this (as some have reported) then the code should be removed.

--tal

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