Re: Dumping the ELD file to something portable..

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no>]

raeburn@cygnus.com (Ken Raeburn) writes:

> Something a bit more useful would be to translate article numbers from
> the news server into message-ids and vice versa.  So when you get to
> the new news server you can go mark them read/ticked/whatever again,
> without having to re-read them.  I've seen a perl script around
> somewhere that does something similar for plain newsrc files.

Yes, I've been thinking along those lines, but a) it seems like lots
of work, and 2) if we're not exceptionally clever, it'll take forever
to query the server for all those Message-IDs, and iii) it won't work
100% correctly no matter what we do.

But something like that really should be done.

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   Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen * larsi@ifi.uio.no
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