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On lun, 17 jan 2000, Stainless Steel Rat wrote:

>* Pieter Wenk <pwenk@urbanet.ch>  on Mon, 17 Jan 2000
>| Please read: Know with an existing lock file...fetching will not
>|  work correctly and you might notice this only too
>|  late....
>
>Your leafnode installation is broken.

Hm...I guess no. I am running the latest version ie. 1.9.9.

It's not "always" creating a lock file...when reading
news...

Regards
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