History weirdness

[Jeffrey M. Vinocur]

More inexplicable behavior:

(jeff at puck:pts/32) ~ > wc -l ~news/spool/overview/a/c/v/alt.cellular.verizon.DAT
    4122 /usr/local/news/spool/overview/a/c/v/alt.cellular.verizon.DAT

(jeff at puck:pts/32) ~ > head -n1 ~news/spool/overview/a/c/v/alt.cellular.verizon.DAT
    23621   Re: Blue Cellular ad in newspaper - who is it?  P. Synthesis 
    <p_synthesis at hotmail.com>  Mon, 28 Oct 2002 14:24:32 -0600 
    <n77rruk0vm69me7ca11560ia5eoav41hfr at 4ax.com> 
    <b9953042.0210211546.44c191cc at posting.google.com>       1737    19      
    Xref: news.litech.org alt.cellular:6530 alt.cellular.cingular:5871 
    alt.cellular.sprintpcs:30021 alt.cellular.verizon:23621

(jeff at puck:pts/32) ~ > telnet localhost nntp
    Trying 127.0.0.1...
    Connected to localhost.
    Escape character is '^]'.
    200 news.litech.org InterNetNews server INN 2.4.0 (20021214 CVS prerelease) ready
    mode reader
    200 news.litech.org InterNetNews NNRP server INN 2.4.0 (20021214 CVS prerelease) ready (posting ok).
    group alt.cellular.verizon
    211 4122 19109 33023 alt.cellular.verizon
    xhdr Xref 1-
    221 Xref matches follow (NOV)
    .
    xhdr Xref 23621
    221 Xref matches follow (NOV)
    23621 news.litech.org alt.cellular:6530 alt.cellular.cingular:5871 alt.cellular.sprintpcs:30021 alt.cellular.verizon:23621
    .

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Jeffrey M. Vinocur
jeff at litech.org