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From: ltf@ncmicro.lonestar.org (Lance Franklin)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Getting bnews to notify user of replies.
Message-ID: <224@ncmicro.lonestar.org>
Date: 14 Nov 90 11:56:09 GMT
Distribution: news
Organization: NC Microproducts, Inc. Richardson, Tx
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Has anybody ever done any work on getting bnews to notify a user on the
local system when somebody posts a followup to their post?  What I have
in mind is utilizing the xref capabilities of bnews to recognize when
a newly-arrived article has a reference to a local posting, and mailing
to the user that made the post the newsgroup and article-number of the
followup.  Alternatively, a log of articles which make reference to
local postings would also be useful.

Anybody ever done it?

Lance
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