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jonc@status.gen.nz (Jon Clarke) writes:

>  All their news is batched up in numeric order in their /spool/sitename
>  directory. However when they poll me for it they seem to get a muddled
>  feed ie
> 
>  5798
>  5799
>  5743
>  5744

is this in their /news/comp/bbs/waffle directory?  or where?

(assuming their /n/c/b/w) it's because of the way dos doesn't (by default)
sort the filenames - on Unix, it'd do this too (and will show it to you
if you force it) - when you expire the old news (5741 and 5742) the new
news takes the first available directory position for the new news.

I know of no situation in which waffle's rnews.exe would UNBATCH news out
of order.  that doesn't mean it's impossible, but... it'd be tricky at
least, and definitely a non-obvious way to do it.
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Russell Schulz  russell@alpha3.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca  ersys!rschulz  Shad 86c