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From: travis@douglass.columbia.edu (Travis Lee Winfrey)
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Subject: Re: Read each article only once?
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Date: 3 Aug 89 17:01:53 GMT
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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?  Is there some
>way to effect a KILL file that weeds out cross posted articles?  Thanks...

If cross-posting isn't on at your site for whatever reason, and you have
KILL files, you can use the KILL files to junk messages appropriately.
that is, if you read comp.lang.c before comp.misc, you can have

	/comp.lang.c/h:j

in your KILL file for comp.misc.  there are a number of problems with
this solution, of course, mostly that it's slow and gross.  it will
cut down the number of messages you read unnecessarily, however.

t

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