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While prying the lemmings from hir ankles Mon, 18 Mar 1996 10:06:06
GMT, nicks@wipak.demon.co.uk (Nick Sellors) wrote:

>>Since the document was completed over 10 years ago, numerous servers
>>and clients have been developed. In UNIX clients (which formed the
>>vast majority in the early years), in became standard practice to
>>keep a list of all the article that had already been seen to be
>>listed in a file ~/.newsrc . This contained lists of articles in
>>comma and hyphenated form eg.
>>
>>demon.service: 1-1277,1279-1281,1284-1290
>>
>>Thus indicating that no articles were found with article numbers 1278,
>>1282 and 1283. The next time the client connected, it would check for
>>these articles and others in the range 1291 to l.

Incorrect.  articles 1278, 1282-3 have not been read yet.  It is
impossible to determine whether or not they exist from the information
in the .newsrc, and besides, why would you store information like
that?  The list of articles in the .newsrc line indicates the articles
that have been read.
>>Free Agent does not appear to check for these earlier article numbers
>>and thus may miss these articles if the server later fills in these
>>numbers.

This *should* be correctable by checking "Always get complete list of
article headers" but I don't know if FA has that.  I leave that option
checked JIC.


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