Re: ID style quoting (was: ADDGROUP with 'real' names)

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From: Phil Martin
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 1995 00:00

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In article <818613360.3018@thokk.demon.co.uk>
           Malcolm@demon.net "Malcolm Muir" writes:

> John Washington (john@wash.demon.co.uk) wrote:
>
> > It must have been at least a year I saw this kind of thing,
> > to my shame I simply accepted it.  One wet weekend I did
> > some thinking of my own, and SnzPrune is the result.
>
> A pedant of course has to point out that SnzPrune does corrupt the
> database in the process of deletion :)
>
> The fact that the resulting corruption (the renumbering of articles)
> is not noticed by the majority of users is key here.

So that's why anything I read in a session that is followed by a Prune,
is returned to unread status ?

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Phil Martin                       PGP Keyserver: pgp@webcor.demon.co.uk

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