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From: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Read each article only once?
Message-ID: <1989Aug4.065134.13742@twwells.com>
Date: 4 Aug 89 06:51:34 GMT
References: <2439@trantor.harris-atd.com>
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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...

I'm not entirely sure, but I think that you will have to take this to
the person responsible for your news software. My understanding is
that rn uses a special header line to determine which article numbers
the article is in its various newsgroups. However, not all news
software puts this line, the Xref: line, in. If yours does not then
your system administrator might want to upgrade his software so that
it does.

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