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From: John Washington
Date: Sat, 18 May 1996 00:00

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On Thu, 02 May 96 17:54:20 GMT, in article
     <831059660snz@wbriscoe.demon.co.uk>
     walter@wbriscoe.demon.co.uk "walter briscoe" wrote:

[Walter's modified Snews Expire]

wb> With my current implementation, articles are renumbered to fit with the
wb> unread articles; with the new scheme, the unread articles are renumbered
wb> to fit with the articles which are newer than the threshold.  In
wb> consequence, the history information is only wrong - if there - for the
wb> articles kept because they are marked as unread.  This requires a second
wb> pass through the index file for each affectd group.

I'm trying to guess what you mean by 'history info is wrong'.
Do you mean that you are not renumbering the articles in
history.snw?  If that were so, you would then have errors
when a user subsequently reads a cross-posted article.

--
John Washington

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