Apurdue.161
net.news.b
utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!pur-ee!purdue!mab
Mon Jan 18 10:55:59 1982
"seeing old news"

    I just got the Gamma test version of B news up at the CS Department
at Purdue, and have noticed one annoying bug.  Sometimes "readnews" will
show you the same news items more than once.  The symptoms are these:
   I type "readnews".  I read the news.  Eventually, I reach the last
item and exit by hitting RETURN.  I then type "checknews", which tells
me that there is news.  I re-enter "readnews" and see some new news (which,
I guess, came in while I was reading the news the first time). After
the new news has been displayed, I see two or three of the articles I
had seen before.  This is a pain in the @?%^&!#!!!!
   I know that items submitted to multiple newsgroups are shown once for
each newsgroup.  This isn't the problem.  At least two of the repeated items
(ie, the ones I saw during both the first and second sessions) were posted
to one newsgroup ONLY.  Also, the items I saw both times were among the
last I had seen the first time.  It is as though readnews were forgetting
to update parts of the .newsrc file.
   Anybody else had this problem?

                                       Matt Bishop

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