[NNTP] Article Reinstatement
Clive D.W. Feather
clive at davros.org
Sat May 14 13:00:22 PDT 2011
> The client may make use of the low water mark to
> remove all remembered information about articles with lower numbers,
> as these will never recur.
This was written like that so as to support the common behaviour of a
.newsrc file that contained lines like:
uk.railway: 1-85623,85625,85629-85641
which listed the articles to be treated as read. If the server offers a
low-water mark of 85627, the client knows that 85624 and 85626 are *never*
going to get read and can change the line to:
uk.railway: 1-85626,85629-85641
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