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From: epsilon@wet.UUCP (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Read each article only once?
Message-ID: <368@wet.UUCP>
Date: 3 Aug 89 10:45:45 GMT
References: <2439@trantor.harris-atd.com>
Reply-To: epsilon@wet.UUCP (Eric P. Scott)
Organization: Wetware Diversions, San Francisco
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In article <2439@trantor.harris-atd.com> hnewstrom@x102a.harris-atd.com
	(Harvey Newstrom) writes:
>I get tired of reading the same article over and over.  Some people cross-
>post to many newsgroups.  Is there any way to get rn to suppress showing
>me an article that I have already read in another newsgroup?

rn is supposed to to this automatically--but it needs a bit of
help in the form of crossreferences.  Find a crossposted article
and use the "v" command to see complete header.  There should be
an Xref: line present.  If not, there's something wrong with the
news transport on your site.

Some sites use a package called "notes" that inserts multiple
articles (it doesn't understand how to crosspost properly).
There's nothing you can do in this case.

					-=EPS=-