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[Charles Lindsey]

In <ClpiaNNg$ei+EwTB at romana.davros.org> "Clive D. W. Feather" <clive at on-the-train.demon.co.uk> writes:

>Two questions:
>(1) Is NEWGROUPS supposed to be consistent with LIST ACTIVE.TIMES? Is 
>this a SHOULD or a MUST sort of thing?

SHOULD, I think.

>(2) Can NEWGROUPS fail to return the entire list of groups even if given 
>an "old enough" date?

Yes. But I would hope they would return anything that was still around in
ACTIVE.TIMES. It's just that I don't think ACTIVE.TIMES files should be
allowed/required to grow forever.

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