Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!lsuc!eci386!woods
From: woods@eci386.uucp (Greg A. Woods)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general
Subject: Re: 'rn' isn't marking cross-posts (was 'Too much cross-posting?')
Summary: It slipped out into comp.sys.att again!
Message-ID: <1989Jul17.152101.3808@eci386.uucp>
Date: 17 Jul 89 15:21:01 GMT
References: <674@whizz.uucp> <240@gnosys.UUCP> <1989Jul7.052540.7258@eci386.uucp> <20239@cup.portal.com> <694@whizz.uucp> <970@rush.cts.com> <698@whizz.uucp>
Reply-To: woods@eci386.UUCP (Greg A. Woods)
Followup-To: unix-pc.general
Organization: R. H. Lathwell Associates: Elegant Communications, Inc.
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In article <698@whizz.uucp> bbh@whizz.UUCP (Bud Hovell) writes:
> In article <970@rush.cts.com> bob@rush.cts.com (Bob Ames) writes:
> >In article <694@whizz.uucp> bbh@whizz.UUCP (Bud Hovell) writes:
> > >Yes - 'rn' seems to have a problem here. The site name aortuars in the Xrefs
> > >line, but still doesn't mark cross-postings as read. Any gurus out there who
> >
> >Why don`t I have a probelm with this?  I never read something twice.  I will
> 
> >admit that one single article which is cross-posted will show up as something
> >like "1 article in unix-pc.general, 1 article in comp.sys.att" but when I go
> >to read them, I *never* see it twice.  Is the current problem just that you`re
> >bothered by being told that you`ve got one more article that you should be?

No, that's not the problem.  I, however, do have a related problem
to this cross-posting nonsense.  Though I had been confused with
Xref's in the beginning, my real reason still remains.  I do not
read the unix-pc.all groups unless I'm really bored (and yes, I do
have interest in Unix PC's).  However, with all this cross-
posting, I have to put up with it in comp.sys.att anyway.  Not to
mention the fact that it's all jumbled up with many of the unix-pc
groups _all_ being coss-posted to comp.sys.att.

I think those people who are trying to be do-gooder's and increase
the circulation of their postings should think a bit more about
the consequences.  This gratuitous jumble in comp.sys.att is much
to difficult to read anyway.
-- 
						Greg A. Woods

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