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.admin Subject: Re: 2.11 rmgroup minor bug fix Message-ID: <1378@munnari.oz> Date: Thu, 25-Dec-86 08:55:51 EST Article-I.D.: munnari.1378 Posted: Thu Dec 25 08:55:51 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 26-Dec-86 18:38:46 EST References: <300@rlgvax.UUCP> Organization: Comp Sci, Melbourne Uni, Australia Lines: 13 Summary: This is not a bug In article <300@rlgvax.UUCP>, dennis@rlgvax.UUCP (Dennis Bednar) writes: > The 'rmgroup' script blindly deletes articles without removing the > entries from the history file. There is no need to fix this, extra message id's in the history file don't hurt anyone, and they will vanish in time from normal operation of expire. Running rmgroup when there are unexpired articles probably isn't the best thing to do though in most cases (however sometimes its hard to avoid). kre