grephistory?

[George Lindholm]

Richard Michael Todd [mailto:rmtodd at mailhost.ecn.ou.edu] wrote:
> In message <37C41018.221E66BB at ubc.ca>you write:
> >
> >That pretty wells describes my situation. Fortunately I'm still running
> >in slave mode (in preparation to cutting over) so I don't have any
> >duplicate hashes (yet). 
> >
> >If tagged-hash is so broken (ie. useless) why is it still an option?
> 
> Well, in my experience it isn't broken.  There are issues with the
> .pag file not handling overflow gracefully, causing duplicates, but
> that only happens when one is starting up news for the first time and
> the history file hasn't reached a steady-state size, but once the
> history file and .pag file have reached their steady-state sizes, this
> doesn't happen.  Admittedly this is a problem, but it's hard to fix
> without having some way of knowing what the target steady-state
> history size will be, which is difficult since history size 
> varies so widely
> depending on local spool size and expiration policy. 

Well, I just went from tagged hash to no tagged hash and suddenly
things like grephistory and 'ihave' started to work. If that doesn't 
count as being broken I don't know what does.

   George