From: G. James Berigan (usefor@war-of-the-worlds.org)
Date: Sat Nov 06 1999 - 10:36:25 CST
list-ietf-wg-apps-usefor@faerber.muc.de (Claus Färber) wrote:
>Charles Lindsey <chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk> schrieb/wrote:
>> 7.3. The 'mvgroup' Control Message
>...
>> NOTE: For serving agents that use a file system directory
>> structure to organize message storage, this operation is quite
>> efficiently implemented as a single directory rename
>> operation.
> Unfortunately, this is wrong. You also have to rewrite the XRef headers
> in all existing articles.
No, you don't really have to rewrite them. So some people don't get their
crossposted articles marked as read for a week in the moved group. It
isn't a big deal. (And with a straight move and group aliasing, a client
can be written that accounts for this.)