Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!munnari!kre From: kre@munnari.oz (Robert Elz) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: 2.11 cancel msg does not update history file Message-ID: <1387@munnari.oz> Date: Tue, 6-Jan-87 09:59:41 EST Article-I.D.: munnari.1387 Posted: Tue Jan 6 09:59:41 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 6-Jan-87 21:03:11 EST References: <301@rlgvax.UUCP> <322f30f0.982f@apollo.uucp> <308@rlgvax.UUCP> Organization: Comp Sci, Melbourne Uni, Australia Lines: 26 Summary: This is still not a 2.11 cancel bug... In article <308@rlgvax.UUCP>, dennis@rlgvax.UUCP (Dennis Bednar) writes: > Let me clarify. When an article is cancelled I think the proper thing > for the history file is to contain a line either of the form: > > <7770@gatech.EDU> 12/19/86 04:49 cancelled > <7770@gatech.EDU> 12/19/86 04:49 The first of those is from an incoming cancel message when the message to be cancelled has not been seen, the second comes from expiring a message, not cancelling it. > However, the history file erroneously says something like: > > <1355@mit-vax.LCS.MIT.EDU> 01/05/87 12:09 soc.culture.jewish/89 > > i.e, the article is still pointed to by the history file, but should > say "cancelled" or "" instead. This would be too expensive - history files are large, rewriting it for a cancel message would take forever. So, the history file is just left as it was, the code that accesses articles based on the history file knows that if the file named doesn't exist, then the message must have been cancelled. Robert Elz seismo!munnari!kre