rn again - seeing articles more than once

[Greg Noel]

In article <2816 at glacier.ARPA> reid at glacier.UUCP (Brian Reid) writes:
>
>The Xref failure is somehow linked to unbatching, but not in any
>deterministic way that I have been able to put my finger on. Since the
>consequences of this bug are not dire, we have not devoted a lot of work to
>fixing it.

I believe he is correct, and since the consequences are not dire, I have
not looked into it very much, either, but I believe the senario is that
the Xref information is calculated \before/ the article is inserted and
when the article is actually inserted, inews finds that one of the article
numbers is already in use and rotates to the next one, making the Xref
information incorrect.  The result is that when rn marks the articles as
read, it can potentially mark the \wrong/ article.  The result is that
you see some articles more than once and you \don't/ see articles that
were incorrectly marked as seen.  It is linked to unbatching because
there tend to be several <hmmmmm -- what's the plural of inews?  Inewses?>
running at the same time and potentially trying to deliver articles into
the same newsgroup.
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-- Greg Noel, NCR Rancho Bernardo    Greg at ncr-sd.UUCP or Greg at nosc.ARPA