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From: greg@sdcsvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: net.announce - bug, feature, or ???
Message-ID: <541@sdcsvax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 27-Feb-84 15:06:28 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 27 15:06:28 1984
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Organization: EECS Dept., U.C. San Diego
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((Our outgoing news feed has been down, so I don't know if this got
out.  My appologies if you have seen it before.))

It seems to be a function of the fact that net.announce is the first
line in your .newsrc file.  My first line used to be sdnet.general,
and it would happen there.  When net.announce started, it became the
first line (after the options line, of course), and now it happens
to net.announce.  It is irritating, but net.announce is so lightly
traveled that it is not too bothersome.  It seems to happen whenever
the list of options is reordered, which causes the .newsrc file to be
resorted, which leaves an extra copy of the initial line somewhere in
the file.  It can be fixed by getting your news wizard to put in a
dummy group as the first one which never moves around.  (Did somebody
say "KLUDGE??")