A bug in news reader program

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== Quote from HATA (hata at mail1.big.or.jp)'s article
> Hello
> A bug has reported in BBS of D-language in Japan.
> Let me post it in this news group, because this bug is in this news
> reader, not in D compiler and library.
> For example, please go to following page by clicking link (or copy &
> paste)
>
http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php?art_group=digitalmars.D.bugs&article_id=11355
> Then, please click link in a tree of the bottom of that page.
> Perhaps, you must go to the article of "digitalmars.D".
> But that link shoud make you to go to the article of
> "digitalmars.D.bugs".
> The number of article is same, but news group is different.
> This news reader can work rightly only through message list page.
> We think this is a kind of bug.
> Sorry, if this bug has been known.

I've known about this for a while, but I don't know if it's been mentioned in the
newsgroup before. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem like the WebNews project is being
actively developed. It is open source, but I don't know how hard it'd be to fix. I
think it has something to do with how WebNews uses cookies to keep track of the
last newsgroup that has been displayed.

In any case, the problem only seems to affect the links in the thread list at the
bottom of the page and the pnews web interface doesn't even have a thread view, so
I still prefer WebNews for when I can't use an actual newsreader. (Though a do
post with pnews because posting through WebNews is known to "break" threads in its
own threading view. For details, see
http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php?art_group=digitalmars.D&article_id=47211)

(More information about the newsgroups is available here:
http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?NewsDmD)